(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 ...

A man died Monday afternoon in an apparent oil field-related accident in Dunn County, authorities say. Dunn County Sheriff Don Rockvoy said the death occurred at an oil rig site, which was not yet ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was ...