On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — BP brands itself a friend of the environment, an energy company that goes “beyond petroleum.” That image, worth billions of dollars, is being sullied by the company’s inability to ...

One person is missing and seven were injured after an explosion at an oil rig in a Louisiana lake just north of North Orleans. The explosion happened just after 7 p.m. Sunday in Lake Pontchartrain off ...

Authorities in Nacogdoches County, Texas, are responding to a reported explosion and fire at an oil well site. Emergency crews have been arriving at the scene.

Police have confirmed that three oil rig workers died while another has been critically injured after the lifeboat they were ...

The offshore oil-drilling blast killed 11 people, caused thousands to lose their jobs and poisoned more than a million birds. We thought we’d prevented another one.

An oil platform off the coast of Carpinteria caught fire Monday morning, triggering a response from the U.S. Coast Guard and county firefighting agencies.

Deepwater Horizon tells the real story of the people who survived the 2010 oil rig explosion. The 2016 biographical disaster movie stars Mark Wahlberg as the real-life oil rig technician Mike Williams ...

Five people are missing after a fiery explosion ripped through an eastern Oklahoma drilling rig on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke into the air and leaving a derrick crumpled on the ground, ...

NEW ORLEANS — A deep-water oil platform that burned for more than a day after a massive explosion sank into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, creating the potential for a major spill and underscored the ...

HOUSTON Attorneys with the Houston trial law firm Arnold & Itkin LLP filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Aaron Dale Burkeen, one of 11 men still missing after the recent oil rig ...