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 ...

(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...

(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 ...

A total of four people have been injured after an oil rig in Grady County caught fire on Friday afternoon. Grady County Fire Chief Rodney Gregory says the fire began as an explosion at the rig, ...

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 ...

WORLAND (AP) - The father of a man killed in an oil field accident last year says the $625 fine against Nabors Drilling USA isn't enough. Joshua Riedel, 23, was killed July 23 near Pinedale. "We want ...

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 ...