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 ...

British families of those killed in a Norwegian oil rig disaster have welcomed a decision to set up a compensation scheme ...

A normal day on an oil rig in Mexico turned into a nightmare when an explosion tore through the platform. This documentary explores how the disaster unfolded, the lives lost, and the lessons learned ...

Amid cautious optimism that a "top kill" effort to cap the leaking well causing the Gulf oil spill is working, President Obama banned new offshore drilling Thursday until further notice.

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 ...

Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.

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 ...

A big rig hauling 40,000 gallons of fish oil had to brake suddenly, causing the liquid load to shift and leak onto Highway 99 ...