KENNER, Louisiana (KTRK) -- The body of a Katy oil worker who went missing after a rig explosion in Louisiana has been found, local officials confirm. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said a ...

An ailing worker was pulled off a high-seas oil rig after suffering severe chest pains, with the entire daring rescue captured on dramatic Coast Guard video. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk chopper was ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the state-run oil company workers union said. “Our ...

Petroleos Mexicanos’ deepening financial crisis is visible in every corner of seaside Ciudad del Carmen. Here, the ferries that shuttle workers to oil rigs in the nearby Gulf of Mexico periodically ...

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 ...

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 ...