Tougher drug testing of rig workers is being adopted by at least one major drilling company in an attempt to cut down on accidents. Union Drilling Inc., the Fort Worth, Texas-based rig owner hired by ...

An investigation has been launched after the death of a worker on an offshore installation in the North Sea. Lee Hulse, 32, ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- An accident at a construction site in the University City section of Philadelphia killed one person and injured another, authorities said. It happened around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday ...

A chronology of some of the major oil industry accidents in the last 20 years: March 1980: Alexander Keilland oil rig in Ekofisk field of North Sea broke up with fatigue fracture and capsized, killing ...

A oil field worker is dead after an overnight accident at a drilling rig in Webster Parish. It happened just before 1:00 Thursday morning in Shongaloo at the intersection of Rodney Martin Rd. and ...

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 ...

The 32-year-old tragically died while working on the jackup rig on Friday, November 14, with both Police Scotland and the ...

GILLETTE - Two Wyoming men lost their lives in separate drilling rig accidents in the Pinedale Anticline during the past two weeks. Those in the industry say the timing is cause for concern. But one ...

CASPER - Two drilling rig workers died in separate accidents last month in Wyoming. The Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating both accidents. A Wyoming OSHA official ...

“Gulf of Mexico (GOM) oil production began from shallow water fields (water depth of under 1,000 feet) but shallow water production began to fall in 1998. Steadily increasing volumes from deepwater ...