“It certainly has the potential to be a major spill,” said Dave Rainey, vice president of Gulf of Mexico exploration for the oil company ... 90 drilling rigs and 978 manned platforms.

original report below -- The burning off-shore oil platform Deepwater Horizon has sunk in the Gulf of Mexico, according to reports. The rig experienced an explosion Tuesday night and had a raging ...

Hundreds of workers evacuated after a deadly explosion, — -- An explosion and ensuing fire on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico today left four dead and injured 45 others, according to the ...

but it offers an insight into a aspect of the Gulf oil spill coverage that’s been overlooked in recent coverage: life on board an oil rig — in this case, Shell Oil’s Ursa platform (above).

At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Seven ...

On the surface, offshore oil rigs are a complete ... warm subtropical waters of the Gulf of Mexico, roughly 100 nautical miles off of Galveston, Texas, one platform has become a hotspot for ...

A map showing the approximate ... It is not the first time the Gulf of Mexico has witnessed an oil spill. The largest ever occurred in 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, operated by BP ...

Reporting from Mexico City — A fire at an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday ... transport about 300 workers from the oil rig, the Abkatun Permanente, which is in shallow ...

The main focus of the plan, besides opening up areas in the Alaska Arctic, is on allowing development in already-explored deepwater areas of the Gulf of Mexico. Deepest oil rigs in the gulf of ...

Oil rigs keep the black gold pumping out of the ground at a steady clip, but who owns the most oil rigs? There's one leader ...

(WLOX/WGNO) — Less than a week after four men were killed in a helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico, family members ... affiliate WLOX in Biloxi, three oil rig workers and a pilot were on ...

A massive oil sheen seen for miles extends from an offshore drilling platform 12 miles off the coast of Galveston, Texas in the Gulf of Mexico on July ... riser at the rig. In the days that ...