KUWAIT CITY – Kuwait's state-run oil company says it has contained a fire at an onshore oil rig in the country's southwestern oilfields. The Kuwait Oil Co. said early on Monday that a fire broke ...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) - A fire broke out on an onshore oil rig in Nigeria's Niger Delta on Saturday, three witnesses told Reuters, adding that the fire was still burning as of noon. The barge ...

An onshore rig operated by Qatar Petroleum subsidiary Gulf International Services caught fire, reportedly injuring six people in the process. Rig fire: land rig GDI-3 in blaze, six injured Luke ...

In a story March 21 about a rig fire in Qatar, The Associated Press erroneously described the rig. Gulf International Services said Tuesday it was an onshore rig, not an offshore rig.

NEW ORLEANS (CN) – A federal judge has dismissed claims brought by a group of 66 fishermen, oilmen and property owners who sought damages from the vessels that responded first to the Deepwater Horizon ...

Mexico’s worst major spill in the Gulf was in June 1979, when an offshore drilling rig in Mexican waters – the Ixtoc I – blew up, releasing 140 million gallons of oil.