There's no denying just what a time commitment working on an oil rig can be, nor how isolated one might feel while doing so. The latter in particular comes with the territory at times: The Perdido oil ...

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

Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A worker from Texas is dead after falling at an oil rig site in North Dakota. Daniel Navarrete, 42, of New Braunfels, Texas, fell through an open hatch Thursday in a pit at a ...

GILLETTE - A 49-year-old Riverton man was killed while working on a drilling rig south of Pinedale, the second rig-related fatality in the area in less than two weeks. The tragedies have shook the ...

KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. -- Power was restored for more than 25,000 customers on the Northern Neck after a construction truck struck a Dominion Energy high-voltage transmission line at the King George ...

(AP) A worker who survived the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon testified Wednesday that a flurry of activity on the drilling rig hindered his ability to monitor BP’s well for signs of ...

Christian Jones has spent nearly 20 years working offshore, away from his family for the majority of the year.