Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

Shell fined after major hydrocarbon release on rig linked to corroded pipework - The Health and Safety Executive said 176 staff working on the platform were put at risk from an explosion if the ...

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio. Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. Sign up for our Newsletters According to the ...

KENNER, LA (WGNO) -- Three of the seven workers injured in a rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain last night are currently in critical condition, and two of those critical patients have been ...

The family of one of the workers killed in a drilling rig explosion earlier this week spoke out for the first time Friday afternoon. In a statement, family members of 29-year-old Matthew Smith of ...

Representatives of the victims of the rig explosion paid an advocacy visit to the Bayelsa Ministry of Environment on Thursday to seek the support of the state government in the legal action. In ...

Before rig workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizion drilling platform performed a procedure that BP says may have been a "fundamental mistake," there was a "skirmish" between BP and Transocean ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. At 14,000 tons and 2.5 times the height of the Statue of Liberty, the Piper Alpha oil rig was one of the largest in the world. But on July 6, 1988 ...

Obama promises return to normalcy during Gulf visit before addressing nation. A natural gas rig is seen at rear as President Obama, third from left, takes a ferry from Dauphin Island, Ala., to Fort ...

MIAMI - Another offshore rig exploded Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, an unsettling echo of BP's deep-sea blowout less than six months ago, but this time it appears there won't be another ...