A unit of BP Plc was the high bidder in a US auction for oil and gas drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico, the first sale ...

Oil companies have offered $279 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico in the first offshore lease sale in the ...

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management offered about 80 million acres in federal waters offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi ...

Every member of Florida's U.S. Congressional delegation signed a letter urging president Trump not to expand oil exploration ...

If the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has its way, a huge swath of the Eastern Gulf, long considered off limits, will be opened to offshore drilling.

Environmentalists said the fossil fuel sales would put wildlife in the Gulf at an higher risk of dying in oil spills. Spills ...

A letter signed by Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody — as well as by all 28 House members from Florida — urges the ...

A contentious issue that's been fought off several times over the decades, drilling off the Southwest Florida coast is not a popular idea here.

Florida lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are pushing back on a plan by the Trump administration for new offshore oil drilling.

If the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management gets its way, 19.88 million acres of Eastern Gulf will be opened to offshore drilling. Eastern Gulf offshore rigs could be as close as 100 miles south ...