A oil field worker is dead after an overnight accident at a drilling rig in Webster Parish. It happened just before 1:00 Thursday morning in Shongaloo at the intersection of Rodney Martin Rd. and ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. - The Occupational Health and Safety Administration is investigating the death of an oil field worker who was injured while working on a rig north of Watford City. Preliminary ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

MANDAREE, N.D. – Two years ago, Teresa Van Deusen felt helpless when an oilfield worker lost his arm in a drilling rig accident and had to wait two hours for an ambulance to arrive. Once the ambulance ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. - The McKenzie County Sheriff's Office has identified a man killed in an accident on a drilling rig last week as Kyle Winters, 20, of Kalispell, Mont. The accident occurred Thursday ...

GILLETTE - A 49-year-old Riverton man was killed while working on a drilling rig south of Pinedale, the second rig-related fatality in the area in less than two weeks. The tragedies have shook the ...

A drilling company has agreed to pay $9,805 in fines in a settlement with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration over an accident on one of its rigs near Parachute last October that killed ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Qatari company says one of its oil drilling rigs will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast. Gulf ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of Royal Dutch Shell's ambitious Arctic oil drilling program has called on the Obama administration to put offshore drilling plans in the region on hold after the ...

A worker on a natural gas rig worker has been injured in an accident in DeSoto Parish. The man, whose name was not released, got his arm caught in a piece of machinery late Thursday afternoon, DeSoto ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. - A man who died last week after an accident on a drilling rig north of here died from blunt chest and abdominal injuries, the State Forensic Medical Examiner said in a report of ...