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.

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.

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 ...

News about Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill (2010), including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

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 ...

Up to 1.1 million gallons of oil may have been spilled into Gulf of Mexico from a pipeline off Louisiana’s southeast coast, U.S. Coast Guard says.

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 ...

Thousands of oil spills occur in U.S. waters every year, though most are a single barrel or less of oil. Over the last 50 years, at least 44 spills have released more than 420,000 gallons each.