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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Helicopters, ships and an airplane searched waters off Louisiana's coast Wednesday for at least 11 workers missing after an explosion and fire that left an offshore drilling ...

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio. Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. Sign up for our Newsletters According to the ...

Eleven workers were missing after Tuesday's explosion on a Louisiana oil rig. April 23, 2010— -- The Coast Guard called off the search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig off ...

KENNER, Louisiana (KTRK) -- The body of a Katy oil worker who went missing after a rig explosion in Louisiana has been found, local officials confirm. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said a ...

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OKLAHOMA CITY - An oil drilling rig continues to burn Tuesday morning as an oil and gas company works to extinguish the blaze that started Monday night. An oil rig fire could burn for several days ...

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 took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible ...

GILLETTE (WNE) — Two men were taken to Campbell County Memorial Hospital after an explosion at an oil rig early Wednesday morning. Undersheriff Quentin Reynolds said the explosion happened during the ...

In 1988, a massive explosion ripped through the Piper Alpha oil rig. Within minutes, the entire oil rig was on fire, forcing workers to run or plunge into the North Sea. Witness the harrowing stories ...