The BP oil spill affected fish in the Gulf of Mexico in different ways. Some showed clear signs of oil exposure, with many reef fish developing skin lesions in 2011.

With a oil derrick looming in the background, pelicans nest and hatch young on the islands of Cat Bay, on April 19, 2012. The area was heavily oiled during the BP oil spill.

BP's massive oil spill will become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday based on the highest of the federal government's estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant ...

British energy company BP said it was suing oil contractor Halliburton for costs and damages tied to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.S. News // 1 decade ago BP employees could face ...

April 30, 2010 — -- As the first spilled oil from the Gulf of Mexico began to soil the marshes of southern Louisiana today, federal and state officials took shots at BP Oil, the company ...

10 years after BP spill: Oil drilled deeper; rules relaxed. Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are ...

John Maas poses for a portrait Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, in Sparta, Tenn. Thousands of people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick, including Maas.

When the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in 2010 and spewed many millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the disastrous spill damaged the economy, devastated the environment ...

More than 1 million gallons of oil have flowed into Gulf of Mexico waters following a pipeline leak first reported Friday, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Although the situation is still ...

Gulf of Mexico oil spill believed to be among ... Coast Guard said Monday a pipeline was shut down Nov. 16 after it likely discharged an estimated 1.1 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Gulf of Mexico produces about 1.7 million barrels of oil per day, compared with about 9.2 million bpd for inland shale basins. Total gas production accounts for about 15% of the national total.