Oil and natural gas companies were evacuating workers and continuing shutdowns of crude and gas production platforms in the western Gulf of Mexico today as Tropical Storm Claudette snaked her way ...

A plan to expand oil and gas drilling, including seven areas in the Gulf of America off Florida, has been released by the ...

They heard a loud bang echo through the platform, then another, and then the entire structure trembled. Within seconds, a cracked weld tore loose, ripping a pontoon free and sending the 10,000-ton rig ...

An above-ground storage tank operated by Carbon California released approximately 420 gallons of crude oil into a tributary ...

Later today, oil services and technology company Baker Hughes will release its U.S. rig count, which is the tally of active oil rigs in the country. Since the spring, rig count has declined, reaching ...

The number of active rigs targeting oil in the kingdom dropped to its lowest in more than two decades in July, according to Baker Hughes data. Image by champc via iStock The number of active oil rigs ...