Victor Gibson spent 20 years as a sailor including a decade as a master of North Sea supply ships, describing his fellow ...

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

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 ...

How could a state-of-the-art $350 million oil rig sink due to a simple maintenance mistake? This documentary explores the chain reaction aboard Brazil’s P-36 platform from a gas leak to an explosion ...

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 ...

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio.Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. According to the fire chief, at least six ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio. (WSAZ) - Several people were injured in Washington County, Ohio, after an oil rig explosion. Washington County is in the Southeastern part of Ohio. According to the St. Mary’s ...

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 ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration released its short-term energy outlook this week, predicting that oil prices will continue to slide into next year. Brent crude, which averaged $71 per ...

September WTI crude oil (CLU25) is down -0.71 (-1.11%), and September RBOB gasoline (RBU25) is down -0.0244 (-1.16%). Crude oil prices are on the defensive ahead of today's Trump-Putin summit, which ...

The drilling rig count in Canada increased during the week ended Aug. 15, led by a gain in oil-directed rigs. Baker Hughes’ overall tally of active drilling rigs in Canada increased 3 units to 183.

Activists from Greenpeace have scaled a gas rig in the North Sea, erected a 1,000-square-foot roll of canvas across its side, and sprayed it with hundreds of gallons of blood-red liquid in an art ...