Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons ...

The Amico Cadiz oil spill in 1978, the Castillo de Bellver in 1983, and the destruction of the oil platform in the Persian Gulf in 1983 are just some examples of how the oceans around the world ...

The coalition achieved miraculous results. The first burning well was extinguished in early April, 1991, the last on November ...

It began with an air assault and continued on the ground. Iraq released millions of barrels of oil into the Persian Gulf. The spill covered an area 100 miles by 40 miles and was five inches thick ...

Dr. Ben Meadows, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, vividly recalls the night of ...

The two foreign oil tankers were seized in the Persian Gulf, Iran's Revolutionary Guard’s Second Naval District announced Monday, as part of efforts to combat fuel smuggling in the region.

(This is a guest post from Gail the Actuary at The Oil Drum it is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License) We have all been reading about the blowout ...

United States Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Monday declared a fishery disaster in the Gulf of Mexico because of the economic impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on fisheries in the region.