May 13 (Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude ...

A man has died following a drilling incident at a Texas construction site, according to authorities. Investigators say a 22-year-old man died Wednesday morning when a drill being operated by his ...

Petrobras PBR, Brazil's largest state-owned oil and gas company, has made a significant decision to pause its drilling activities in the Foz do Amazonas Basin following a fluid leak that occurred at ...

AT SEA - APRIL 28: Workers look out at wind turbines at the Alpha Ventus offshore windpark on April 28, 2010 in the North Sea approximately 70km north of the German coast. Alpha Ventus, which is a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

QUEENS, N.Y. (PIX11) — A drilling contractor performing “investigative work” pierced a hole through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel Wednesday, causing a leak that forced officials to close the tunnel ...

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 ...

"If there were a serious drilling accident in one of the Great Lakes, the results could be devastating and permanent," Buchsbaum said. "These are closed fresh-water lakes. A major spill could likely ...

Day after day, The Plain Dealer reports stories dealing with mining and drilling accidents, of which the consequences will be with us for decades. And yet, I am amazed that, for the lure of the ...

The Offshore Energy Center inducted the IADC into the center's Hall of Fame as a Technology Pioneer in the category of Health, Safety and Environment for outstanding development of Offshore Safety ...

Offshore oil and gas drilling is a complex process that involves extracting reserves from underneath the seabed. It has been used for decades and remains essential in meeting energy needs for many ...

(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...