The sunken rig may have as much as 700,000 gallons of diesel on board, and an undetermined amount of oil has spilled from the rig itself. Suttles said the rig was "intact and secure" on the seabed ...

The suit names Transocean Ltd., which owns the rig, and oil giant BP, which contracted it. A Transocean spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment and BP wouldn't discuss the suit.

April 23, 2010 — -- There is no crude oil spilling from the sunken oil rig off the Louisiana coast, an official told "Good Morning America" today, easing fears of a massive environmental ...

Oil Spill From Sunken Rig Site May Be Serious. An urgent effort is underway to stop the flow of oil from the site of the accident that destroyed the BP-leased rig, the Deepwater Horizon, before it ...

Five times more oil a day than previously believed is spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a blown-out well of a sunken drilling rig, the Coast Guard said Wednesday ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- The world's biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on ...

Recurrent sheens of oil in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of 2010's Deepwater Horizon oil spill have baffled researchers and led to fears that oil may once again be spewing from the seafloor well.

As the crew of the SKS Satilla battled water gushing through its punctured hull, emergency workers Monday succeeded in emptying the 900-foot oil tanker of half its cargo of 40 million gallons of ...

Others call it “the island of seven ships,” after the sunken vessels that surround it. ... Neft Daşları oil rig and industrial settlement in the Caspian Sea on September 6, 2023.