Shell fined after major hydrocarbon release on rig linked to corroded pipework - The Health and Safety Executive said 176 ...

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 ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

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Eleven workers were missing after Tuesday's explosion on a Louisiana oil rig. April 23, 2010— -- The Coast Guard called off the search for 11 workers missing since an explosion on an oil rig off ...

The failed pipework released 200kg of gas and 1,550kg of crude oil – the largest uncontrolled hydrocarbon release on the UK ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Officials are saying that an explosion on an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana has the potential to be a major spill. The Coast Guard is still searching for the 11 workers missing ...

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 ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his ...