WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A man working on an oil rig in western North Dakota was crushed by a tank and killed, authorities said. Karl Heller, 31, of Piedmont, S.D., was killed Tuesday morning. The oil ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of ...

From the oil field to the hotel desk, business has remained brisk in the country’s top oil basin as analysts warn of a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A newly built Qatari offshore rig will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast, its owner said Tuesday. The ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma County Sheriff's deputies said a man was injured while working on an oil rig Thursday morning. Deputies said they were called to N.E. 36th Street and Harrah Road at about 9:15 ...

ELK CITY, Oklahoma -- An oil rig accident involving a crane has killed two Vici men who worked for an Oklahoma City-based company. Kathy Willingham, the human resources director for Cactus Drilling Co ...

Oklahoma City police have identified a man who died Monday night in an oil rig accident as 45-year-old Peter Cleeland. Around 10 p.m., Cleeland was pinned beneath some machinery at a rig in the 3400 ...

(Reuters) - An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian far east island of Sakhalin on Sunday. Here is a timeline of some major oil industry accidents in the past 30 ...

Several homes remain "covered in oil" and may require complete reconstruction following an oil rig accident east of Karnes City. TCEQ releases preliminary estimates from Encana natural gas leak ...