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 ...

A chronology of some of the major oil industry accidents in the last 20 years: March 1980: Alexander Keilland oil rig in Ekofisk field of North Sea broke up with fatigue fracture and capsized, killing ...

Roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nearly 13 hours after their data first hinted at ...

[{ "name": "Inline Story Links", "component": "11821434", "insertPoint": "4th", "startingPoint": 3, "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "maxInsertions": 5 },{ "name ...

Eleven workers were missing after Tuesday's explosion on a Louisiana oil rig. April 23, 2010— -- The Coast Guard called off the search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig off ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio (WTAP) - The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has released an updated statement regarding the orphan well explosion from Monday. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - An oil platform exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. All 13 crew members were ...

The new explosion on a gulf oil production platform Thursday revved up support for the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, just as oil companies were mounting an offensive against ...

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 ...