An oil rig 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico is still burning after an explosion around 9 a.m. this morning, according to the Coast Guard. There were thirteen people aboard ...

MMS Gulf of Mexico Region. “We expect tugs to be on location to secure the rigs as soon as sea conditions allow.” The MMS conducts risk assessments of every mobile drilling rig location plan ...

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 ...

Colonizers have always coveted the Gulf of Mexico: its trade winds ... the deaths, the cargo, the locations of the attacks. Congress finally got fed up and passed a bill in 1819 called “An ...

ENSCO International continues to make progress inspecting its Gulf of Mexico drilling ... semisubmersible rig, ENSCO 7500, has returned to its pre-storm drilling location and preparations are ...

However, some cities are more prone to natural disasters than others based on their geographical location ... Horizon rig exploded, sending millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Audubon Nature Institute is changing all references to the Gulf of Mexico at its exhibits and ... rays swim around a barnacle-covered oil rig. The name change was announced to the institute's ...

BALTIMORE— Under an agreement approved today in U.S. District Court in Maryland, federal agencies will seek better ways to protect endangered Rice’s whales and other imperiled marine species from ...

The Biden administration has agreed to auction off oil and gas leases for over 73 million acres of federal water in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision comes just after President Biden approved the ...