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

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials are saying that an explosion on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to be a major spill. The Coast Guard is still searching for the 11 workers missing ...

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 ...

A normal day on an oil rig in Mexico turned into a nightmare when an explosion tore through the platform. This documentary ...

[UPDATED] Rescue efforts are underway after another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN is reporting that 13 workers involved in the explosion of Vermilion Rig 380 80 miles south of Vermilion ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Alliance News) - Shell PLC has been fined GBP560,000 following a major hydrocarbon release on a North Sea oil rig after it failed to properly maintain pipework for seven years. The UK's Health & ...

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 ...