Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the ...

Crews battle the blazing remnants of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico after the explosion April 20, 2010, ...

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...

BP is moving forward with plans to develop an offshore drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico worth $5 billion. The new platform will develop the Tiber and Guadalupe fields, which combined are ...

The Trump administration plans to auction offshore drilling rights across roughly half of the Gulf of Mexico next month, the first of 30 such lease sales in the area. Roughly 80 million acres across ...

A lawsuit claims the Trump administration has broken laws with a planned sale of 80 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas interests.

Two new programs meant to rapidly increase oil and gas drilling will almost certainly mean more rigs off the Alabama coast.

A battle could be brewing in Congress over an as-yet unreleased proposal that reports say would open up "at least a small sliver" of the Eastern Gulf to off shore drilling. Staunch environmentalists ...

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.