An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk ... Deepwater Horizon was drilling for BP on part of the Mississippi Canyon Block 252 known ...

December 27, 1965: Britain’s first ever North Sea oil rig collapsed and killed 13 men during a bitter snowstorm and 20ft-high waves on this day in 1965. BP’s Sea Gem drilling platform was in the ...