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.

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 ...

Sept. 8, 2010— -- In its first report on the disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 crew members and unleashed the worst oil spill in the nation's history, BP took some of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

LONDON (AP) — BP PLC said Monday that its partners in the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well must share responsibility for the costs in dealing with the disaster, on which BP said it has now spent ...

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… ...

BP Oil Spill Didn't Ruin Gulf of Mexico, Says Politico Piece Written by BP Communications Guy Published Oct 22, 2014 at 1:03 PM EDT Updated Mar 03, 2016 at 2:16 PM EST ...

Even when BP began pumping oil and gas through a line from the blowout preventer to the Q4000 well-servicing ship—at Garwin's suggestion—the flow of oil into the sea remained undiminished.