Reporting from Mexico City — A fire at an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday ... transport about 300 workers from the oil rig, the Abkatun Permanente, which is in shallow ...

The federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico produce 1.7 million barrels of oil ... one fire caused more than $1 million in damage in that time period. A blowout accident on a similar rig occurred ...

BP PLC was days away from announcing a "commercially attractive" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico where a drilling rig caught fire and sank, according to a person familiar with the matter ...

Hundreds of workers evacuated after a deadly explosion, — -- An explosion and ensuing fire on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico today left four dead and injured 45 others, according to the ...

April 22, 2010— -- A burning oil rig sank into 5,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico today while the ... vessels struggled to contain the fire on top of the rig as plumes of smoke ...

Gulf Fire Threatens Long-Term Damage (The Wall Street Journal) BP's reputation at risk after oil rig explosion (The Telegraph / United Kingdom) BP's Gulf of Mexico Plans Unlikely to Be Set Back ...

At least two people were killed and one person is missing after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa offshore platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil ...

Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday that an undersea gas pipeline ruptured near a drilling platform in the Gulf. Greenpeace wrote in a statement that an oil rig fire in the Gulf of ...

Two people were reported to have died on Friday when an offshore oil rig called Nohoch Alfa caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico. A statement from the government-owned oil company Petróleos ...

The fire alarm system on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig was partially disabled prior to the catastrophic explosion that caused the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker testified Friday.