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 ...

Offshore drilling in the U.S. got a bad reputation after the 2010 explosion of BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig, which spilled 4 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Investment in offshore ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk, the US Coast Guard has said. A search is continuing for 11 missing workers after the blast at ...

In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil rig with its size ... a massive blowout and explosion that threatens them ...