This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part four in a four-part series. Read part one here, ...

On November 5, 1983, an incident on the Byford Dolphin oil rig saw routine maintenance work end with five workers dying instantly and one escaping with life-changing injuries. A video ...

Militant youths in Nigeria have freed a group of 99 hostages they seized from a Shell oil rig off the West African nation's coast. Armed youths took control of the offshore facility Thursday night ...

China National Offshore Oil Corporation operates an offshore drilling rig in an oil field in the Bohai Sea ... Li said that the sight of tall drilling rigs towering over sprawling fields and busy ...

The new administration’s job cuts, tariffs and push for lower energy prices are creating a more uncertain world for its ...

The rig count in the Permian Basin was down one this week, the latest count Friday by Baker Hughes shows, with 304 rigs active in the region. A year ago, 313 rigs were active in the region. Nationally ...

saying it dismisses the chance of another disastrous blowout like the… Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Aberdeen became the oil capital of Europe and an estimated half a million jobs were created by the industry over the decades. The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 ...