Tag: Gulf of Mexico

Mexico: Lightening storm ignited gas leak in Gulf

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Monday that a bizarre chain of events, including a lightening storm and a simultaneous gas pipeline...

Mexico’s Pemex suffers huge gas pipeline fire in Gulf

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MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s state-owned oil company said Friday it suffered a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico, sending...

Court: Toppled rig’s owners can’t sue Coast Guard contractor

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NEW ORLEANS — The owner of Gulf of Mexico oil wells broken in 2004 cannot demand damages from a federal contractor who says his...

Storm expected to be another blow to Gulf Coast businesses

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NEW ORLEANS — A weekend that was supposed to be filled with celebrations of Juneteenth and Father’s Day has turned dreary in coastal Louisiana...

Making hot sauce and working to save wetlands

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AVERY ISLAND, La. — As storms grow more violent and Louisiana loses more of its coast, the family that makes Tabasco Sauce is fighting...

Senators press Interior Secretary Haaland on oil lease pause

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WASHINGTON — Both Republican and Democratic senators pressed Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for answers Wednesday after a federal court blocked the Biden administration’s suspension...

3 more federal lawsuits filed over Seacor Power disaster

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NEW ORLEANS — More lawsuits filed Tuesday in the capsizing of an offshore oil service vessel in a Gulf of Mexico storm provide harrowing...

Interior gauging interest in Gulf of Mexico wind power

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NEW ORLEANS — President Joe Biden's administration wants to know whether offshore wind companies want to move into the Gulf of Mexico. ...

Seacor Power oil boat to be pulled from sea after capsizing

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PORT FOURCHON, La. — Authorities say they’re preparing to move a capsized oil industry boat from the site of its deadly April accident. ...

NOAA: Average-sized ‘dead zone’ likely off Louisiana

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NEW ORLEANS — An average “dead zone” is likely in the Gulf of Mexico, where a large area of water holding too little oxygen...