Everything on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea appeared routine during the evening shift. Workers were performing normal operations when a seemingly small oversight during maintenance set ...

The new explosion on a gulf oil production platform Thursday revved up support for the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, just as oil companies were mounting an offensive against ...

Last Friday, a 39-year-old man was crushed to death during drilling operations at the Berwyndale South coalbed methane project in Queensland. Exactly a week earlier, a 54-year-old caterer on board the ...