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 ...

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 ...

MANDAREE, N.D. – Two years ago, Teresa Van Deusen felt helpless when an oilfield worker lost his arm in a drilling rig accident and had to wait two hours for an ambulance to arrive. Once the ambulance ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. - The McKenzie County Sheriff's Office has identified a man killed in an accident on a drilling rig last week as Kyle Winters, 20, of Kalispell, Mont. The accident occurred Thursday ...

GILLETTE - A 49-year-old Riverton man was killed while working on a drilling rig south of Pinedale, the second rig-related fatality in the area in less than two weeks. The tragedies have shook the ...

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 ...

RANKIN - Officials say an equipment-related drilling rig accident in West Texas has left an oilfield worker dead. The Upton County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday did not immediately release the name of ...

What started as routine drilling ended in a geological nightmare. Lake Peigneur collapsed into the ground, swallowing barges, land, and a massive drilling rig—leaving behind Louisiana’s deepest lake.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Opponents of Royal Dutch Shell's ambitious Arctic oil drilling program has called on the Obama administration to put offshore drilling plans in the region on hold after the ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Qatari company says one of its oil drilling rigs will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast. Gulf ...

A worker on a natural gas rig worker has been injured in an accident in DeSoto Parish. The man, whose name was not released, got his arm caught in a piece of machinery late Thursday afternoon, DeSoto ...

WATFORD CITY, N.D. - A man who died last week after an accident on a drilling rig north of here died from blunt chest and abdominal injuries, the State Forensic Medical Examiner said in a report of ...