While watching the recently released film "Deepwater Horizon" about the catastrophic well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico that caused the largest oil spill in U.S. history, I remembered the term ...

Deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, a massive blowout preventer was supposed to be Deepwater Horizon’s last line of defense.

Desperate times call for desperate measures — an apt characterization of energy giant BP’s ongoing, checkered response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Last weekend, the company’s plan to lower a ...

Deepwater Horizon was already burning while an estimated 336,000 gallons of crude oil were escaping every day, and BP’s ...

In 2002, BP’s Ocean King rig suffered a major accident that released highly flammable methane into the ocean. 8 years later, the Deepwater Horizon disaster made it clear that no lessons had been ...

(Reuters) - The explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon floating drilling rig in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana on April 20 resulted the presumed death of 11 workers. The rig sank, and ...

The White House announced today that all new deepwater drilling will require environmental reviews. What’s that you say? You assume an activity as transparently fraught with danger and risk as ...

Famed for Finding Oil Deposits on the Seafloor after the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Accident, the Invaluable Seagoing Laboratory is up for Sale. Meticulously tended to by a professional crew, ...