Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

Aug. 19 (UPI) --The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday unveiled its long-term schedule for new Alaskan and Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and gas leases that are part of President Donald Trump's ...

Analysts and consultants predict that offshore investment will continue to grow as new technology and more friendly regulations encourage investment.

A federal judge in Louisiana ruled that President Biden’s withdrawal of large coastal areas from offshore oil and gas ...

One of President Donald Trump's first courses of action when he was inaugurated last week was to sign executive orders changing the names of two major landforms in the Americas. Trump signed orders ...

Eleven participants in the Alaska mapping project included active seaweed farmers, hatchery workers/operators, and others ...

BP and the U.S. government are still working out the final amount the oil giant will have to pay out for spilling an estimated 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico last year. Today, ...

Officials say the change will “align” the agency’s identity with a January presidential order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Hello, Gulf Council, a shorter and politically defused ...

A picture from the Gulf of Alaska that has been making the rounds on the Internet for the last few years -- though particularly in recent weeks-- shows a strange natural phenomenon that occurs when ...

Rigs drilling beneath the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico will drive U.S. oil industry growth this year and next as onshore ...