The United States on Wednesday ordered oil and gas firms to permanently plug nearly 3,500 unused wells and dismantle
BP began drilling Monday the final stretch of a relief well that will allow engineers to permanently seal its
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in the streets of Montreal Sunday, calling for an end to "dirty, risky" oil exploration,
More than 1.2 million Malaysians were without piped water Tuesday, authorities said, as contamination from a landfill forced a
Pretoria — A team of experts is expected to assess the extent of acid mine drainage in the country
The Macondo well, which spilled an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, has been
Mariner Energy (NYSE: ME), owner and operator of the Vermilion 380 offshore production platform that exploded and caught fire
A fire caused by an explosion on an oil platform off the Louisiana coast has been extinguished, the Coast
A mile-long oil slick is spreading from an oil platform ablaze in the Gulf of Mexico, the US Coast
A clean-up operation was under way in Goa on Tuesday after some beaches in the Indian resort state were