On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...

ATLANTA — The opening scene was all too familiar. Black smoke rising from a burning oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico and workers plucked from the sea. But Thursday’s fire on an oil production ...

CARACAS, June 29 (Reuters) - An explosion at a ‌rig operated by state-run oil company PDVSA ‌in Venezuela's Los Llanos central region left at least 17 workers injured late on Sunday, including two ...

An explosion at a rig operated by state-run oil company PDVSA in Venezuela's Los Llanos central region left at least 17 workers injured late on Sunday, including two with severe burns, three sources ...

One person was killed and three others were injured in an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico today, according to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The explosion ...

Nearly a year after three Filipino welders died in an oil platform explosion off Louisiana’s coast, the federal offshore safety... A report for a Texas-based company says a deadly 2012 explosion on ...