The government has given BP the go-ahead to replace the failed blowout preventer in the Gulf of Mexico as a first step toward permanently plugging the Deepwater Horizon well that caused one of the ...
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Thursday ordered BP to remove the failed blowout preventer from its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico and preserve it as likely evidence in civil and ...
Fourteen years ago, the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig suffered a blowout in water a mile deep. The Gulf of Mexico explosion took the lives of 11 people, released 134 ...
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, triggering one of the worst environmental ...
Off Grand Isle, Louisiana, is a sportfishing paradise, where dolphins escort Captain Craig Bielkiewicz's charter boat into the Gulf of Mexico. He wanted to show off what matters there: the redfish are ...
NEW ORLEANS — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 million gallons of crude gushing into the ocean, the effects of the nation’s ...
The Interior Department has hired a Norwegian firm to inspect the giant subsea device that failed to prevent the Macondo oil and gas well from exploding on April 20, although the same firm earlier ...
Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the environmental impact is still felt along the Gulf Coast. Settlement money is also nearing an end, leaving states like Louisiana searching for ...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is officially halting a $3 billion coastal restoration funded by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement money, state and federal agencies confirmed Thursday. The ...