The environmental disaster began after an April 20 explosion on the offshore drilling platform Deepwater Horizon that killed 11 men. Two days later, the platform sank and oil from the Macondo well ...

BP's Macondo well, in about 5,000 feet of water ... The widely reported gaffes had appeared in other oil companies' spill-response plans as well. They had simply been cut and pasted from older ...

Cement used to seal the Macondo well may have contributed to the blowout that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, US investigators have found. Both BP, which owned the well, and Halliburton ...

"The new administration is opening the Gulf. It has been slowed down after the Macondo drama," he said, referring the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the largest in the history of marine drilling ...

(CNN)-- BP has completed work on a relief well that will allow the oil giant to permanently seal the well at the heart of the Gulf oil disaster ... has intersected the Macondo well," said Thad ...

When the same platform was deployed to the nearby Macondo field ... since the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. There were more than 6,300 reported oil spills along the coasts of the United ...