The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Fifteen years after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded off the Gulf Coast, killing 11 and sending 134 ...

An oil rig 80 miles off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico is still burning after an explosion around 9 a.m. this morning, according to the Coast Guard. There were thirteen people aboard ...

A Florida photographer was aware his photo would likely fuel an online storm, with people from New Orleans to 30A chiming in.

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk, the US Coast Guard has said. A search is continuing for 11 missing workers after the blast at ...

Looking back, Rigzone recalls 15 key news stories that have shaped the upstream oil and gas industry ... damages to more than 50 platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as onshore ...