NEW ORLEANS -- Federal scientists say they have dated coral living near the site of the busted BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2,000 years old. The U.S. Geological Survey said Wednesday it had ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have detected oil or natural gas seeping from the seafloor near BP's unstable Deepwater Horizon oil well and have also found "undetermined anomalies" near the wellhead that ...

BARATARIA BAY, La. (AP) — When fishermen returned to the deep reefs of the Gulf of Mexico weeks after BP's gushing oil well was capped, they started catching grouper and red snapper with large open ...

In this April 2010 file photo, oil can be seen in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, as a large plume of smoke rises from fires on BP's Deepwater Horizon ...

* U.S. concerned over seep detected near BP well * BP aims to keep new cap closed as long as possible * British PM Cameron visits Washington this week (Adds details, background, WSJ report) By Chris ...

Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, undersecretary at Oman’s Ministry of Oil & Gas, said the project will have the capacity to process 1 billion cubic feet per day of sales gas. More appraisal wells are ...

As judges and high-powered attorneys gathered inside an ornate Camp Street federal courtroom in April, the defendant in the case they were set to argue was identified only by a long series of numbers: ...

BP is nearing a sale of a majority stake in its Castrol lubricants business to the investment firm Stonepeak, a deal that values the entire division at $10 billion, including debt, according to people ...

NEW ORLEANS, LA There are two wells within two miles of BP's blowout, one that has been abandoned and another that is not in production. "It's actually closer to that facility than it is to the ...