The tragic Deepwater Horizon explosion was depicted in the 2016 movie by the same name ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill seems to divide people into two categories: those who can’t forget, and those who refuse to remember. In the first camp are Gulf Coast residents and environmentalists ...

It's been 10 years since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. Eleven rig workers were killed, and the explosion created the worst ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Two BP employees have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 2010 Gulf oil spill disaster. The federal indictment unsealed Thursday in New Orleans names BP well site leaders ...

Charitable donations to the human victims of the BP oil spill are turning out to be miniscule compared to those for other recent disasters, according to MSNBC. The explosion that began the spill also ...

Down along the Gulf coast, the beaches look cleaner, the birds less tar-covered, but the longterm consequences of the BP oil spill are leaving their mark under the ocean's surface. Scientists continue ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chastened by heavy criticism, a grim-faced BP chief executive Tony Hayward insisted Thursday he was "devastated with this accident" in the Gulf of Mexico and denied shunning tough ...

Fireboats try to extinguish the blaze on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig south of Venice after an explosion on Wednesday, April 21, 2010. The explosion and fire killed 11 workers on the rig. (Michael ...

Halliburton will pay $1.1 billion for its part in the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Houston-based contracting company has been embroiled in multiple lawsuits, from BP and local residents, ...

Eleven workers died in the initial explosion, and 17 were seriously injured. What followed became the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. Oil flowed from the damaged wellhead nearly 1,500 ...

The explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 had a deadly effect on at least one ocean dweller: bottlenose dolphins. A new study from the National Oceanic and ...

BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible ...