One of the worst oil rig disasters in the world happened on British shores, as 167 people were killed when the Piper Alpha ...

THE first thing Ed Punchard knew about the explosion on the Piper Alpha oil rig was when the roof of his “bomb proof” office collapsed on his head. The diver, who’d already come close to one ...

A normal day on an oil rig in Mexico turned into a nightmare when an explosion tore through the platform. This documentary ...

A docudrama that tells the story of one of the worst offshore oil and gas disasters has been released on BBC iPlayer this week. Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story is a three-part BBC series ...

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 ...

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

The Deepwater Horizon was meant to be another day of drilling - until a sudden explosion changed history. This is the story of how the oil rig disaster unfolded in the Gulf of Mexico.

Deepwater Horizon workers did a hip-hop safety dance aboard the oil rig. May 4, 2010 — -- The federal agency charged with enforcing safety on deepwater oil rigs has also played a major role in ...

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 ...