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The federal government's final report on the Gulf oil spill blames poor management, key missteps and a faulty cement job by BP and others for ...

A new oil sheen was spotted in the Gulf of Mexico, although energy company BP said Thursday the discovery had nothing to do with its operations and was far from the site of its disaster-hit Macondo well.

Oil giant BP is back in the black, announcing profits of $5.3 billion just a year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster left it facing heavy losses.

BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster.

A year after the worst U.S. offshore oil spill swamped the Gulf coast with petroleum and misery, officials on Wednesday declared the hard-hit region reborn.

In the year since the Gulf oil spill, officials along the coast have gone on a spending spree with BP money, dropping tens of millions of dollars on gadgets, vehicles and gear - much of which had little to do with the cleanup, an Associated Press investigation shows....

Several "preventable human and engineering failures were the immediate causes" of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster last year, a presidentially appointed commission said in its much-awaited report Tuesday.

Shares in oil major BP hit a six-month high on Tuesday after The Daily Mail newspaper reported rival Royal Dutch Shell had considered a takeover bid during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Dig 2 feet into the sand on this wind-swept beach and up comes the foul smell of oil.

The Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit against nine companies over the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.