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

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 ...

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

A man from Aberdeen has died following an incident on board a North Sea drilling rig. Emergency services were alerted to the ...

The 32-year-old tragically died while working on the jackup rig on Friday, November 14, with both Police Scotland and 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 ...

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 ...

Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.

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