British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank on April 20, 2010 in an oil field off the coast of Louisiana called the Macondo Prospect. The blowout-triggered release of oil into the ...

A week before the explosion, a BP drilling engineer wrote, "This has been [a] nightmare well." By April 20 the Deepwater Horizon was six weeks behind schedule, according to MMS documents ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill that began nearly 15 years ago may have had a larger impact on offshore ecosystems than previously thought, recent research suggests.

Oil giant BP has agreed to pay $20bn to settle claims with the US stemming from the company's Deepwater Horizon oil spill. An explosion on BP's deep-water drill, off the coast of Louisiana in 2010 ...

An Oklahoma jury awarded $10 million each to the families of two men who died in a natural gas well explosion that killed five in 2018 - the deadliest drilling incident since the Deepwater Horizon ...