Two BP rig supervisors have asked a federal judge to postpone their trial on manslaughter charges in the April 2010 deaths of 11 workers. Their trial is set to begin Feb. 5. In a court filing Tuesday, ...

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 ...

Two BP rig supervisors charged with manslaughter in the death of 11 workers on the Deepwater Horizon will go on trial in 2014. Dec 19, 2012 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two BP rig supervisors charged with ...

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 ...