Just 20 days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig had exploded, killing 11 people and igniting one of the worst ...

If there’s any doubt how British Petroleum is portrayed in Peter Berg’s Deepwater Horizon — the dramatic reenactment of the 2010 explosion off the coast of Louisiana that killed 11 people and led to ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

Hudson portrays the real-life wife of one of the oil rig explosion's survivors. — -- Kate Hudson said she felt the added pressure in “Deepwater Horizon” of playing the real-life wife of one of ...

Trace Adkins has landed himself another acting role. The country singer has a small part in the forthcoming film Deepwater Horizon, starring Mark Wahlberg and Kate Hudson. In a chat with ToC Nights, ...

The explosion of the enormous floating rig Deepwater Horizon and the ensuing oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico is well known as the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. A buried truth within ...

A worker’s boot at nearly 2 kilometers deep. From the darkness emerges a boot. An old leather, steel-toed, work boot. It shouldn’t be there resting on the seafloor nearly two kilometers deep. I’m ...

When I went to see the movie “Deepwater Horizon” with some of my graduate students last week, I did not expect accuracy. Drilling for oil and gas is not typically viewed favorably or depicted ...

But, unlike many films based on true events, Deepwater Horizon actually stays remarkably close to real life. The film chronicles the last moments on the drilling rig for which the movie is named in ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57-foot charter boat, “Backdown 2.” The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

Eighty four days after it began, with probably 180 million gallons spilled, the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico may be at an end. BP's new cap should stop the flow. But the questions over the oil giant ...