The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...

Chevron has commenced production at its Ballymore field in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a deepwater development expected to ...

The Minerals Management Service has two confirmed reports of drilling rigs adrift in the central Gulf of Mexico ... survey of damage to both oil and gas production platforms and drilling rigs.

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...