The legislation aims to speed up a decades old federal program for oil companies to leave their pipelines and platforms on ...

With the bright white sands of Clearwater Beach dazzling behind them, a coalition of Florida mayors, business owners, anglers ...

The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources recently held a hearing on the Marine Fisheries Habitat Protection Act, which ...

The plane sent out by Diamond Offshore Drilling after Hurricane Lili passed made the dismaying discovery that there was only empty water where the drilling rig Ocean Lexington had been. It immediately ...

MIAMI - Another offshore rig exploded Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, an unsettling echo of BP's deep-sea blowout less than six months ago, but this time it appears there won't be another ...

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were ...

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 ...

Offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico increased by 4 this week, increasing the total US offshore rig count to 21, officials at Baker Hughes reported Friday. Offshore rigs in the Gulf of Mexico increased ...

LITTLE ROCK — ABOARD SEAHAWK 2007, Gulf of Mexico - For the 31 workers on this oil rig, the waiting is finally over. In recent weeks, they have been doing basic chores such as painting handrails and ...

The MMS has two confirmed reports of rigs adrift. The MMS, industry, and the Coast Guard are working together to monitor their paths. MMS says that that there is minimal infrastructure in the areas ...