(Reuters) - An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian far east island of Sakhalin on Sunday. Here is a timeline of some major oil industry accidents in the past 30 ...
A total of four people have been injured after an oil rig in Grady County caught fire on Friday afternoon. Grady County Fire Chief Rodney Gregory says the fire began as an explosion at the rig, ...
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 ...
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 ...