Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

US Coast Guard crews airlifted six injured construction workers to hospitals along the Gulf of Mexico coast after an explosion on a cement platform in Breton Sound Block 1, off New Orleans. A ...

The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon triggered an explosion that killed 11 workers and left millions of gallons of oil spewing into the Gulf, a disaster that already has cost BP billions of dollars ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Divers hired by the owner of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire recovered a body in the waters near the site Saturday evening, according to the U.S. Coast Guard ...

BP filed a $40 billion suit Wednesday against Transocean, the owner of the blown up drilling rig, on the one-year anniversary of the rig explosion that killed 11 people and spilled more than 200 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say they are going to examine whether the last-resort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable enough in light of the explosion and massive oil spill in ...

A supermarket explosion killed at least 23 people in northern Mexico on Saturday, according to local officials, with investigators saying the blast was ...