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Transocean has agreed to pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil fines related to its role in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blowout at the Macondo well site. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon offshore ...

The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds. We thought we’d prevented another one.

On April 20, 2010, while drilling oil giant BP's Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the crew lost control of the well. There was a "blowout" that released gas and oil, leading to an explosion that ...

The spread of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was far worse than the current estimate, new research has found. As the worst offshore oil spill in US history approaches ...

A new analysis of the aftermath of the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident suggests that, while the reputation of BP—the oil and gas company responsible for the event—declined through 2017, its ...

An estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon spill of 2010. New research chronicles the fate of the oil that wasn’t cleaned up. The Deepwater ...

FILE - A plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File) NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the ...

April 20 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1871, the U.S. Congress passed the Third Force Act, popularly known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, authorizing President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law, ...

Before the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, the Minerals Management Service was tasked with regulating offshore energy industry — until the agency was dissolved due to widespread corruption.

After the Deepwater Horizon accident a capping stack like this one had to be built to stop the flow of oil. Now, five of them are on standby in Corpus Christi, Texas, and could be deployed in about a ...