Close to 160 vessels are waiting to enter the Long Beach and Los Angeles port complex- some mega-sized container ships carrying as much as ...

Some reports of a possible spill, a petroleum smell and an oily sheen on the waters off Huntington Beach came in Friday night but weren't c...

Researchers have invented a new 3D-printed swimsuit capable of cleaning up oil spills and de-salinising water while people swim.

"Grassroots Cactivism" is the name of the concept by Ali Chen, which taps the prickly pear as a renewable centerpiece of a water purifying ...

An estimated 21,000 gallons (79,500 liters) of crude oil dumped into the ocean from a broken pipeline just off the central California coast...

One unsolved puzzle is the location of two million barrels of submerged oil thought to be trapped in the deep ocean, researchers said.

The hitch in the long-planned project by Tesoro Corp exemplifies growing problems for moving crude oil on trains around the country.

The tool is a new index that provides a better understanding of how oil travels from where it was formed to where it has collected.

Indian-origin Louisiana leader Bobby Jindal is the most popular serving governor in the United States, an opinion poll has said.

Crews working to seal BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico once and for all need to finish one more test on a cement plug before decla...

British energy giant BP and victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill go to court for the first time Thursday during a session in Idaho that ...

The exasperation with BP felt by residents of the Gulf states is spreading to shareholders - and some are taking the oil giant to court.

BP may lose control of its US oil and natural gas wells.

BP Plc faces a defining day in its five-week Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster on Thursday when its latest attempt to seal a gushing well d...

Just how much oil is spewing from the ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico and how important is it to know that? Experts can't agree on eith...

After failure with a massive box hoped to contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP said it may try again —with a smal...

British Petroleum readied to launch an unprecedented effort Tuesday to contain a widening oil leak with a giant dome, amid signs of growing...