The Gulf of Mexico has been a site for previous disasters caused by oil production. In 2010, a BP oil rig exploded, releasing over 130 million gallons of crude oil into the body of water, making ...

A blaze on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico resembling a large “eye of fire” has been brought under control, according to Mexico’s state-run oil company Pemex.

MEXICO CITY – A fire on the ocean surface west of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula early on Friday has been extinguished, state oil company Pemex said, blaming a gas leak from an underwater pipeline ...

Video of part of the ocean in flames in the Gulf of Mexico has now been viewed more than 20 million times after a leak from a gas pipeline caused a fire off the Yucatan peninsula.

At least two people were killed after a fire broke out Friday at the Nohoch Alfa oil platform at the Bay of Campeche, in the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) said in a ...

Mexico’s state-owned oil company said a fire caused by a rupture in an undersea gas pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico is over, but videos showing efforts to put out what appears to be an underwater ...

A massive fire that broke out on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday has been extinguished, but the incident is raising questions about the risks of undersea ...

July 7 (UPI) --A fire at the Nohoch Alfa oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday has injured at least six people.Petroleos Mexicanos, also known as PEMEX, which operates the oil platform ...

When an underwater gas pipeline leaks, you have a problem. And with the Gulf of Mexico, that problem is quite literally water that had lit on fire and which has since been extinguished.

Two workers died and another remained missing after a raging fire broke out early on Friday morning at an offshore platform run by Mexican state oil company Pemex just off the southern edge of the ...