PITTSBURG CO., OKLA. — Deputies in Pittsburg County confirm they are working an explosion near Quinton on Monday morning about 9:30 a.m. Officials tell us that about 15 workers were working on an oil ...

Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be ...

[UPDATED] Rescue efforts are underway after another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN is reporting that 13 workers involved in the explosion of Vermilion Rig 380 80 miles south of Vermilion ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Wednesday released an update on the early stages of its investigation into the fatal natural gas rig explosion near Quinton, noting that the well’s operator and the ...

Before rig workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizion drilling platform performed a procedure that BP says may have been a "fundamental mistake," there was a "skirmish" between BP and Transocean ...

Representatives of the victims of the rig explosion paid an advocacy visit to the Bayelsa Ministry of Environment on Thursday to seek the support of the state government in the legal action. In ...

KENNER, LA (WGNO) -- Three of the seven workers injured in a rig explosion in Lake Pontchartrain last night are currently in critical condition, and two of those critical patients have been ...

The Gulf of Mexico was forever changed after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil contamination decimated marine life, from fish and shrimp to seabirds and dolphins. Analysts reveal the long-term ...