MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Monday that a bizarre chain of events, including a lightning storm and a simultaneous gas pipeline leak, set off a strange subaquatic fireball ...

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Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, reports that recent torrential rains have caused a pipeline spill along the Pantepec ...

A recent Houston Chronicle story reveals Trump administration plans to open large swathes of the California coast to offshore ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

COVINGTON, La. - BP started pumping heavy mud into the leaking Gulf of Mexico well Wednesday and said everything was going as planned in the company's boldest attempt yet to plug the gusher that has ...

ROBERT, La. -- If oil stops flowing to the surface in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials will know that their latest effort to plug a blown-out undersea well off the Louisiana coast was successful. BP ...