After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

The entire Deepwater Horizon rig capsized 36 hours after the explosion, on the morning of April 22, which is coincidentally Earth Day, a globally recognized day promoting environmental protection.

The Deepwater Horizon disaster: Lasting impacts and lingering questions 15 years later. By Rebekah F. Ward, Staff writer April 20, 2025. An April 22, 2010 photo obtained by The Associated Press ...

Circa 2010, Vincent Culliver was planning a career change. His goal was to become an underwater welder on an oil rig, and he was looking for work when the Deepwater Horizon oil spill happened.. So, ...

Eight years after the deadly Deepwater Horizon explosion, a safety watchdog aims to prevent another disaster. But it faces multiple challenges, and a shift in focus under the Trump administration.

It's been 100 days since the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig caught fire. Look back on the explosion that left 11 dead and caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

As federal regulators begin to express doubts about the safety equipment designed to stop blowouts on the nation's thousands of offshore oil rigs, survivors of the Deepwater Horizon disaster are ...

Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Extends Its Toxic Reach Oct 10, 2016 at 10:25 AM EDT Smoke billows from a controlled burn of spilled oil off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico coast line on ...

The catastrophic Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, which occurred in 2010, may have been significantly worse than previously thought due to "invisible and toxic" oil, research suggests.

The Deepwater Horizon rig was destroyed and sank two days later. Over the next nearly three months , 210 million gallons of oil flowed from the well into the Gulf. It was one of the biggest ...

Nearly 10 years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a study suggests “invisible and toxic oil” made the spill much worse than some experts have estimated.

The site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has become a popular mating ground for deep-sea crabs and shrimp. Decomposing oil from the 2010 spill could be mimicking a sex hormone, and that’s ...