“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.

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).

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 ...

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 ...

Jack-up and deep-water rigs, the massive platforms and ships that drill for oil and gas in the ocean, are leaving the Gulf of Mexico for more lucrative jobs elsewhere. This is expected to ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS – The federal agency that regulates offshore oil and gas says operators on the western edge of the Gulf are evacuating platforms and rigs in ... of the Gulf of Mexico's oil ...

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 ...

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 ...

Offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico kicked ... the presence of oil rigs in the Gulf has blossomed, with there presently being around 4,000 active platforms in the region.

Since the Black Elk-operated rig was offline at the time of the fire, there was little risk of a major oil spill, officials said. The platform ... new wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

(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 ...