IFLScience needs the contact information you provide to us to contact you about our products and services. You may unsubscribe from these communications at any time.

The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, leaving most workers trapped in an inferno at sea. This disaster led to ...

(Reuters) - An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian far east island of Sakhalin on Sunday. Here is a timeline of some major oil industry accidents in the past 30 ...

Losing his father has shaped Shane Gorman's life, inspiring him to follow him in trying to make the industry safer.

(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 ...