Using microphones submerged 3,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico ... which was used to determine BP's liability. In the 10 years following the spill, the oil company spent about ...

The Justice Department and five states on Monday announced a $20 billion final settlement of claims arising from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. BP has reached an $18.7 ...

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

Offshore drilling is a direct result of the growing global appetite for oil and gas. At present, ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico are being exposed to an oil spill larger in magnitude and scope ...

This isn't the first time President Trump has sought to reverse drilling bans. As he learned in his first term, it won't be easy.

Thailand's PTT Exploration and Production said on Tuesday it was looking at BP's assets in Vietnam but had not appointed ...

Donald Trump’s inaugural address as US president this week included a eulogy to fossil fuels and the “liquid gold under our feet”. Despite BP’s large oil and gas operations and reserves in Texas and ...

The Gulf of Mexico is the ninth-largest body of water ... Stephen Colbert suggested the name change after the 2010 BP oil spill. This happened on the Comedy Central show "The Colbert Report." ...

“We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that covers a lot of territory,” Trump said of the ocean basin that borders five U.S.

His efforts are likely to run into problems with the military, the oil industry, and even one of Trump’s prior executive ...

President-elect Donald Trump declared in a proposal out of left field on Tuesday that his administration will rename the Gulf of Mexico ... name during the 2010 BP oil spill on his Comedy Central ...

1947 in the Gulf of Mexico forty-three miles South of Morgan City, Louisiana,” it says. The first, massive oil spill happened in 1979, when millions of barrels of oil spilled into the ocean ...