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

A plan to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America off Florida, has been released by the Trump administration.

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 ...

In the US, 548 rigs were working, down 1 unit from the prior week. With 192 rigs running in Canada, 1 additional rig was ...

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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 ...

President Donald Trump’s plan to “unleash American energy” will have a dramatic effect on Alabama’s coastline, with new ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing back against the Trump administration's plan to open up Florida's Gulf coast to oil drilling.

A study from the University of Miami found that the installation of wind power infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico, ...

DALLAS - Chevron Corp., Shell Oil and BP PLC began evacuating employees from offshore oil and gas platforms and drilling rigs as Tropical Storm Rita churned Monday toward the Gulf of Mexico and ...

“As we have repeatedly seen in California and other parts of the country, offshore drilling is a ticking time bomb,” they continued. “Any expansion of offshore drilling in the waters off the coast of ...

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