An oil rig has just toppled over in Alaska, causing a spill and a fire in an area recently opened up for exploration by ...

Everything on the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea appeared routine during the evening shift. Workers were performing normal operations when a seemingly small oversight during maintenance set ...

Deepwater Horizon tells the real story of the people who survived the 2010 oil rig explosion. The 2016 biographical disaster ...

Here’s a look at oil spill disasters. Spill estimates vary by source. Ten Largest Oil Spills 1. January 1991 – During the Gulf War, Iraqi forces intentionally release 252-336 million gallons of oil ...

On July 6, 1988, the Piper Alpha oil platform in the North Sea became the site of one of the deadliest offshore disasters in history. A maintenance error triggered a gas leak that quickly ignited into ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- The images are unforgettable. When a B.P. oil rig exploded in 2010, 11 people lost their lives and millions of gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. It is one of the worst ...

Many of the workers on BP's Deepwater Horizon rig were worried about potential accidents, but feared reprisals if they came forward and reported mistakes.

BP's shoddy risk assessment and poor communication played a major role in the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and deaths of 11 rig workers last April, a presidential commission says in a ...

One of the survivors of on off-shore oil rig disaster has died, with tributes praising his full and active life and “lively ...

A member of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's staff wearing a glove reaches into thick oil on the surface of the northern regions of Barataria Bay in Plaquemines Parish, La., in June 2010. The well ...

When an explosion on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico claimed the lives of 11 people, the incident was declared a tragedy. Now, with the rig at the bottom of the Gulf and thousands of gallons of oil ...