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 ...

Deepwater Horizon workers did a hip-hop safety dance aboard the oil rig. May 4, 2010 — -- The federal agency charged with enforcing safety on deepwater oil rigs has also played a major role in ...

Uta Passow, a researcher in UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute, spent most of the past year in the Gulf of Mexico analyzing the environmental impact of oil spilled as a result of the ...

Since the Deepwater Horizon accident on April 20—and the moratorium on new deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that followed it—both the oil industry and environmentalists have been waiting for ...

HOUSTON (AP) – BP’s strategy after the Deepwater Horizon tragedy: Go deeper. BP is leading an industry-wide push to develop technology that can retrieve oil from formations that are so deep under the ...

American oil and gas companies should bring in a self-regulation regime akin to that in nuclear power if they are to prevent safety lapses like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, said a Presidential ...

Our editors' top picks to read today. The oil drilling platform blew up 15 years ago, triggering the worst single environmental disaster in the nation’s history. A crew member works to clean up oil ...

Ramanan Krishnamoorti envisions a world where accidents like the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be prevented. So more than a year ago, Krishnamoorti and his team at the University of Houston ...