Reporting from Sacramento — A plan to let oil companies leave large parts of decommissioned drilling rigs in the ocean off California’s coast, saving them hundreds of millions of dollars, is ...

The in-depth story of the Ocean Ranger Oil Rig Disaster 1982. It’s Sunday, February 14, 1982, and as a storm is approaching Newfoundland from the south, a shore-based radio operator of the ...

About the Documentary. On April 20, 2010, communities throughout the Gulf Coast of the United States were devastated by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, a state-of-the-art offshore oil rig ...

The Deepwater Horizon, owned by BP Oil, was a semi-submersible, mobile floating drilling rig able to operate in waters up to 10,000 feet deep to find oil and then drill miles into the ocean floor ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service has awarded permits to five marine contractors to conduct the tests in the Atlantic Ocean between Delaware and Central Florida. In this file photo taken Aug. 19, ...