On July 6th, 1988, disaster struck! Once the pride of the North Seaturned into one of the deadliest man-made infernos in ...

An investigation has been launched after the death of a worker on an offshore installation in the North Sea. Lee Hulse, 32, ...

A Fatal Accident Inquiry will be held into the death of a man from Covid on an offshore oil rig. Donald Singer, 66, was a ...

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 ...

A chronology of some of the major oil industry accidents in the last 20 years: March 1980: Alexander Keilland oil rig in Ekofisk field of North Sea broke up with fatigue fracture and capsized, killing ...

Donald Singer died at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary after being airlifted from the Ninian Southern Platform rig when his Covid ...

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 ...

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson called for a congressional investigation of safety practices at offshore oil rigs. Nelson, a Florida Democrat who has led opposition to offshore drilling, said he asked the U.S.

The Trump administration's plan to expand offshore drilling over more than 1.2 billion acres of ocean worries coastal ...

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