The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the BP oil disaster or the Macondo blowout) [4] [5] [6] [7] is a massive ongoing oil ...

President Obama meets with state and federal officials for an update on the Gulf Coast oil spill Friday in Grand Isle, La. From left are Lafourche Parish President Charlotte ...

On 16 October 2007 Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation officials reported a toxic spill of methanol (methyl alcohol) at the Prudhoe Bay oil field managed by BP PLC.

BP faced a broadening crisis Tuesday with tar balls from the Gulf oil spill turning up on Texas beaches, as the firm's clean-up costs soared and British officials reportedly mulled ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well ...

BP has said repeatedly that it will pay for the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But its actions show that it does not intend to go it alone, The New York Times's John ...

Interactive: Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April 2010, thousands of barrels of oil a day have been gushing into the seas of the Gulf of Mexico and drifting ...

A company has come forward with a giant idea it claims could collect hundreds of thousands of barrels of oily water per day and make a whale of a difference. The company's massive ...

BP said the costs of responding to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have risen to $312 billion.

BP Retailers See Little Help From Aid Plan as Gulf Oil Spill Slashes Sales ... after failures in May to end a record U.S. oil spill. BP Plc is ...