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More than 300 fisherman desperate for information about the Gulf oil spill crowded under a picnic pavilion outside the VFW Hall ...

Administration wants investigations into a rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico to be completed before any expansion of offshore oil drilling.

BP Plc will clean up an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico and compensate those affected, its chief executive said, accepting that the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to drilling.

Twelve people were missing and seven critically injured after an explosion and fire at an oil-drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

Hurricane Ida weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved across the Gulf of Mexico early Monday, forecasters said.

The U.S. Coast Guard said Wednesday it was responding to a tanker collision in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles offshore Texas, which resulted in an 18,000 gallon oil spill.