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 ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...

In 1983, a diving crew aboard the Byford Dolphin oil rig in the North Sea prepared to surface after a routine job. But when a ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

BP's shoddy risk assessment and poor communication played a major role in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and deaths of 11 rig workers last April, a presidential commission says in a ...

On July 6, 1988, a massive explosion tore through the Piper Alpha oil rig in the North Sea. What followed was one of the costliest industrial disasters in UK history. This video uncovers the series of ...

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Officials are investigating one of California's largest oil spills after more than 120,000 gallons of oil leaked from an offshore rig pipeline and into the waters off ...

— -- WASHINGTON—The Justice Department filed its first criminal charges related to the BP oil spill Tuesday, accusing a former company engineer of destroying records requested by prosecutors ...

An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was ...

U.S. energy firms this week cut the number of oil and natural gas rigs operating, the first reduction in six weeks, energy ...