Report warns of systemic industry problems, and similar blowout is possible. Jan. 5, 2011— -- The National Oil Spill Commission released the scathing first chapter of its forthcoming full report ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — BP is suing the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill, alleging negligence that the oil giant says helped cause the disaster. The ...

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 ...

COVINGTON, La. (AP) - Senior managers complained oil giant BP was "taking shortcuts" by replacing heavy drilling fluid with saltwater in the well that blew out, triggering the massive oil spill in the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oil industry and government officials could get caught flat-footed again by another deep-water blowout in the coming months because they have yet to incorporate many of the lessons ...

BP has released a report from its internal investigation of the months-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It concludes by assigning blame to itself but also to several other organizations involved, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

HOUSTON -- A sprawling private ranch 75 miles northeast of Corpus Christi will be converted into a state park with the assistance of a fund created in the wake of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ...