The U.S. Coast Guard has released four videos showing portions of a four-day underwater survey in mid-December of the BP Macondo well site and of wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon ...

Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, estimated the Macondo well contained about 50 million to 100 million barrels of oil in an interview with the Houston Chronicle on May 6.

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was built by Transocean on the Macondo Prospect in 2010 in more than five miles of water, drilling about 18,300 feet below sea level, 48 miles off the Louisiana ...

KENNER, La. — New revelations of equipment trouble and unusual procedures used aboard the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling rig surfaced Monday at a third round of hearings into causes of the ...

Saying that "as operator of the Macondo well, BP directed all aspects of its development," the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 today made its case that the blame ...

John Wright's phone rang at 7 a.m. on April 21. It was a former colleague asking if he'd heard that a rig was on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. That morning, as the Coast Guard searched for 11 men ...

BP, which owned the drilling rights to the Macondo well, leased the rig from Transocean and BP employees directed the drilling operations. BP has agreed to pay a record $4 billion in criminal ...

MOEX Offshore, the minority owner of a well that was the source of the 2010 Gulf oil spill, has agreed to a partial settlement with the federal government.

Nick Snow Washington Editor. Decisions made during the design phase of the deepwater Macondo well led to conditions in the hours before the well's blowout on Apr. 20 that left the crew with ...

BP is refusing to shield rig contractor Transocean from rapidly rising costs associated with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But it's a fight the oil giant can't win.

The joint investigation by the two federal entities responsible for offshore safety enforcement and environmental protection found that numerous system deficiencies and acts of ...

The officer in charge of safety on Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, destroyed in a BP well accident that caused the worst-ever U.S. offshore oil spill, said the post-blowout fire was ...