This week marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill, which shocked the US public with images of oil-covered Alaskan ...

However, none compares to the world's largest oil spill caused by the US in the Gulf of Mexico, the likes of which ... killing 11 people and injuring 17 others. As fireboats attempted to put ...

Graph of Gulf of Mexico Production in Federal Offshore ... not be despoiled by what looks like asphalt from oil spills. But these people seem to have little concern about the long stripes of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Oil began leaking from a Royal Dutch Shell pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico on May 11th, but it has received a surprisingly low amount of coverage. This is what it ...

Monday marks the anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill ... oil rig in 2010 killed 11 people and dumped 210 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico, scattering oil slicks across ...

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 ...

(Credit: Getty Images) Major oil spills can be catastrophic for ... the offshore drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven people were killed. Two days later, the rig collapsed.

To many people in industry and government, spills from tankers like the ... offset a long-term decline in shallow-water oil production. The Gulf of Mexico now accounts for 30 percent of U.S ...

in the Gulf of Mexico, located around 65 km off the coast of Louisiana. The explosion triggered a massive spill of crude oil, which flowed into the Gulf for 87 days before it was capped.

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NEW YORK: BP Plc has asked a U.S. judge to direct what it called a "vast number" of businesses to repay hundreds of millions of dollars it says were wrongly awarded as compensation on claims ...