OSLO, Norway (AP) – Statoil on Wednesday evacuated 326 oil rig workers from a North Sea platform after the structure began to tilt, the Norwegian oil company said. Company spokesman Ole Anders Skauby ...

Oil rig jobs can seem very appealing in any job market, but there are a number of harsh realities to working on them that ...

In February 1982, the Ocean Ranger, the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, faced one of the most violent North ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The world's biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

'It's at the bottom of the sea.' Rescue crews, try to save the sinking P-36 oil rig on Monday about 80 miles off the coast of Macae, Brazil. The Brazilian Petrobras oil company said the rig sank in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) The world s biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...