In October 2007, a massive storm with 70-knot winds slammed into a Mexican oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The jack-up rig collided with a nearby wellhead, rupturing valves and releasing a deadly ...

An owl has been released back into the wild after it was rescued from a North Sea oil rig, after being blown off course by Storm Amy. The female owl was discovered on the Noble Patriot platform, 180 ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) - Crew members aboard dozens of ships in the Gulf of Mexico prepared Thursday to evacuate as a tropical rainstorm brewing in the Caribbean brought the deep-sea effort to ...

As tempests go, tropical storm Bonnie would barely be strong enough to cause a Louisianan to look up from his gumbo. As of Friday evening, the National Hurricane Center actually downgraded Bonnie to a ...

HOUSTON, March 28 (Reuters) - Shell Oil Co. has finished reinstalling a drilling rig on its Mars platform that was damaged during Hurricane Katrina, the company said Wednesday. The rig, on the ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...