Thirty years ago, Willie Cruz was shocked when he learned the Southern California oil refinery where he worked was shutting ...

Michigan workplace safety officials confirmed a pair of deaths on Tuesday, Oct. 7, raising the number on-the-job fatalities this year to 34. The latest deadly incidents involved an industrial painter ...

Questions still stir more than two years after the death of a young mechanical engineer near Alaska’s North Slope oil fields. Colby Lord, 23, suffered a severe skull fracture on April 15, 2023. A ...

As two more oil refineries prepare to close in California, workers who are laid off face limited job opportunities.

Neighbors in Galeton gathered for a community meeting Thursday to learn about the well control incident that occurred Sunday. According to officials, one of Chevron's well locations near Galeton ...

Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part four in a four-part series. Read part one here, part two here and part three here. Correction: This article has been updated ...

LULING Just six minutes from 5,700-person town’s historic city center, where an old oil museum still nods to the boom days, the ground groans as oil workers pull steel tubing — each piece is longer ...

Contractors on Tuesday worked to try and control an 82-year-old oil well that is leaking into the marshes of southern Plaquemines Parish as response workers set up absorbent booms and deployed other ...