PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the Gulf of Mexico ...

With a oil derrick looming in the background, pelicans nest and hatch young on the islands of Cat Bay, on April 19, 2012. The area was heavily oiled during the BP oil spill.

BP's massive oil spill will become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday based on the highest of the federal government's estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant ...

BP is spending more than $6 million a day to plug an oil well that started leaking after a Transocean drilling rig exploded and ultimately sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

April 30, 2010 — -- As the first spilled oil from the Gulf of Mexico began to soil the marshes of southern Louisiana today, federal and state officials took shots at BP Oil, the company ...

In the months following the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and ensuing oil spill, many predicted the Gulf of Mexico would become a tougher place to operate for exploration companies, forcing the ...

BP and the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Part 3 Tony Hayward continued to testify on the role of BP in the Gulf of Mexico offshore oil rig explosion and oil spill. Ques… ...

10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed. Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are ...

John Maas poses for a portrait Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Sparta, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick, including Maas.

The Gulf of Mexico produces about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day, compared with about 9.2 million bpd for inland shale basins. Total gas production accounts for about 15% of the national total.

The BP oil spill affected fish in the Gulf of Mexico in different ways. Some showed clear signs of oil exposure, with many reef fish developing skin lesions in 2011.