Fresno County reports a tragic incident involving Alfredo Oronia, who died while working on an oil rig in Riverdale.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Several homes remain "covered in oil" and may require ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Ten workers have died over the past decade at well sites linked to Patterson-UTI, the same drilling contractor involved in this week’s rig explosion in Pittsburg County that killed ...