New technologies and regulatory reforms have boosted the offshore industry, 15 years after the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe ...

The Gulf hasn't seen the last of oil drilling. The U.S. has granted a permit for a deep-water oil drill 70 miles off of Louisiana for the first time since BP's rig exploded and devastated the region.

WASHINGTON - The U.S. is back in the deep-water oil-drilling business. The question now is when work will resume. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and Gulf states ...

ATLANTA - Environmental groups urged an appeals court on Wednesday to block Shell from drilling 10 new deep-water wells off Alabama's coast, arguing that federal regulators haven't properly reviewed ...

WASHINGTON - The government said Monday it is toughening environmental reviews for all new deep-water oil drilling, ending an easy path to oil riches that allowed BP to drill its blown-out well in the ...

Any effort to re-open oil drilling off the California coast would be “dead on arrival,” Gov. Newsom said while attending a ...

Salazar said he knew that some drilling supporters would say the new rules are too onerous, while critics would say risks remain in deep water drilling. The truth is, there will always be such risks, ...

The region is seeing a boom in fossil fuels just as the impacts of the climate crisis really bite. It’s raising thorny questions about who gets to benefit from planet-heating oil.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. is back in the deep water oil-drilling business. The question now is when work will resume. The Obama administration, under heavy pressure from the oil industry and Gulf states ...

Whispers of renewed oil drilling in the Niger Delta may grow prospects for much-needed infrastructure and job creation.

MIDLAND, Texas (AP) — When the rain stopped falling in Texas, the prairie grass yellowed, the soil cracked and oil drillers were confronted with a crisis. After years of easy access to cheap, ...