“BP’s negligent acts that caused the blowout, explosion and oil spill … were profit-driven decisions,” U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier declared in his 153-page ruling.

Deepwater Horizon Spill: Reporting. One of more than 100 BP oil rigs in the gulf, the Deepwater Horizon rig, which exploded on April 20, 2010, once again brought to light BP's safety problems ...

BP will plead guilty to manslaughter charges stemming from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and agreed to pay $4.5 billion in government penalties ...

The BP Oil Spill was the worst offshore oil spill in United States history. From April 20, 2010 to July 15, 2010, an estimated 134 million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.

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 ...

The BP oil spill of 2010 started suddenly, explosively, and with deadly force. But the response has stretched out for years and scientists say there’s still much more we need to learn. As a crew ...

On the eighth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion that set off the worst oil spill in U.S. history, thousands of workers BP hired to clean up its mess say exposure to oil and ...

District Judge Carl Barbier ruled in September that BP acted with “gross negligence” leading up to the fatal explosion, and in January he put the size of the oil spill at 3.19 million barrels.

BP (BP) CEO Tony Hayward's first reaction to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that killed 11 men, was shock. Then anger. And then another, somewhat less noble, emotion.

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.

By Liz Kimbrough PLAQUEMINES PARISH, U.S. — Down past New Orleans lies Plaquemines parish, a narrow sliver of land at the tip of Louisiana that reaches southward like a finger pointing into the ...