Florida residents hold Hands Across the Sand on Treasure Island Beach to oppose oil and gas drilling. By Seán Kinane / WMNF News (May 2013). This month more than 88,000 gallons of oil leaked from a ...

Oil spills have become commonplace in the Gulf of Mexico. Since 2012, there have been 147 oil spill in the gulf, the Associated Press reported , resulting in more than 500,000 gallons of spilled oil.

Royal Dutch Shell said it has sent boats to clean up and contain an oil spill that leaked an estimated 2,100 barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.

LAFAYETTE, La. — Shell Oil Co., continuing to respond Monday to an oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico, reported it had collected about 76,600 gallons of an oil-water mix through Sunday evening.

A Shell production platform spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday creating a 2-mile-by-13-mile sheen on the surface of the water approximately 97 miles south of Port Fourchon, La., the ...

Unfortunately, spills like this are not new news. The Amico Cadiz oil spill in 1978, the Castillo de Bellver in 1983, and the destruction of the oil platform in the Persian Gulf in 1983 are just ...

The people of Ursa, Shell's $1.45 billion oil-and-gas platform, live 65 miles offshore, in an environment that is demanding and dangerous, and that could drive them crazy. Here's how they work ...

Petroleos Mexicanos is responding to an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of a deadly explosion at one of the state-owned company’s natural gas platforms.. Scientist Guillermo ...

The 2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest accidental spill in history, released almost 100 million gallons of oil, causing significant pollution. A decade later, its long ...

Shell and Chevron both said on Thursday that the companies halted oil production at several platforms in the Gulf of Mexico following a small leak that knocked a pair of pipelines offline. Shell ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has yet to determine the source of an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico near a pipeline southeast of New Orleans last month.