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 ...

Dear EarthTalk: Given the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last month, isn't it high time the government put a stop to offshore oil drilling once and for all? Short of banning it altogether, what ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. WASHINGTON • What now for the gulf? News of another oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico, so soon after the BP oil spill, has set ...

In 1980, a miscalculated oil drilling operation turned a peaceful Louisiana lake into a swirling vortex—swallowing boats, barges, trees, and even land. Pentagon removes key protections for civilian ...

The Offshore Energy Center inducted the IADC into the center's Hall of Fame as a Technology Pioneer in the category of Health, Safety and Environment for outstanding development of Offshore Safety ...

In 1971, a Soviet drilling crew searching for natural gas struck a massive underground pocket in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert. The ground collapsed, forming a crater nearly 230 feet wide. When ...

ORT FOURCHON, La. — Survivors of a thunderous blast aboard an oil platform off the Louisiana coast were being reunited with their families at a suburban New Orleans hotel early Thursday as the search ...