WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A man working on an oil rig in western North Dakota was crushed by a tank and killed, authorities said. Karl Heller, 31, of Piedmont, S.D., was killed Tuesday morning. The oil ...

A recent BBC documentary series, The Piper Alpha Disaster, introduced a new generation to the precarious nature of rig life - telling the story of the July 1988 tragedy, in which 167 men died on one ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A newly built Qatari offshore rig will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast, its owner said Tuesday. The ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of ...

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 ...

(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...

BETHANY, Oklahoma -- An oil field worker was killed New Year's Day morning in a Bethany industrial accident. Police say 35-year-old Donnie Vickery of Noble died shortly after 8 a.m. Friday at NW 27th ...

Oklahoma City police have identified a man who died Monday night in an oil rig accident as 45-year-old Peter Cleeland. Around 10 p.m., Cleeland was pinned beneath some machinery at a rig in the 3400 ...