An extended closure of lanes on westbound Interstate 80 is expected Friday afternoon after a big rig crash and oil spill, ...

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A man working on an oil rig in western North Dakota was crushed by a tank and killed, authorities said. Karl Heller, 31, of Piedmont, S.D., was killed Tuesday morning. The oil ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A newly built Qatari offshore rig will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast, its owner said Tuesday. The ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of ...

Lee Hulse, 32, died on Friday while working on the Valaris 121 oil platform, off the coast of Aberdeen in Scotland ...

Oklahoma City police have identified a man who died Monday night in an oil rig accident as 45-year-old Peter Cleeland. Around 10 p.m., Cleeland was pinned beneath some machinery at a rig in the 3400 ...

A chronology of some of the major oil industry accidents in the last 20 years: March 1980: Alexander Keilland oil rig in Ekofisk field of North Sea broke up with fatigue fracture and capsized, killing ...

HIGH ISLAND -- A worker dismantling an oil rig in Southeast Texas has died after being struck by some pipes. The Galveston County Daily News reported Wednesday that the accident in High Island killed ...

An under-construction oil rig tilted over during a test Monday at a Sembcorp Marine Ltd. shipyard in Singapore, injuring 89 workers. Six people were admitted to hospitals for treatment and observation ...

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