In late April an explosive blowout of the well had turned the Deepwater Horizon, one of the world's most advanced drill rigs, into a pile of charred and twisted metal at the bottom of the sea.

BP told Transocean, owners of the Deepwater Horizon rig, to plug the well and beat a retreat while it worked out what to do. It was a wise decision. When the same platform was deployed to the ...

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN)-- The first relief well BP is drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could intercept the leaking Deepwater Horizon well in seven to 10 days, the man heading the federal ...

Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform that BP leased from the drilling company Transocean — was completing a new well in the 1,600-m-deep Mississippi Canyon area when a ...

WASHINGTON — Working to dismantle his predecessor’s environmental legacy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday aimed at expanding drilling in the Arctic and opening other ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began nearly ... Researchers said the presence or lack of sounds detected, as well as densities in population per unit area, were ...

Eight years later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster made it clear that no lessons had been learned. A Rare Look at Tucker Cars The Art of Sausage Making National Treasure: The History of the Lie ...

In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size or sheer depth of its drilling. However, the project for the ...

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, dolphins living in the area had changes in the activity of genes that regulate lung tissue growth and immune system responses ...