GRAND ISLE, La. - Another oil rig exploded and caught fire Thursday off the Louisiana coast, spreading a mile-long oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico west of the site of BP's massive spill. All 13 crew ...

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 ...

An offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded and caught fire today. All 13 workers are said to be safe, but one reportedly was injured. Ben Casselman, who has reported extensively on the BP ...

In October 2007, a massive storm with 70-knot winds slammed into a Mexican oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The jack-up rig collided with a nearby wellhead, rupturing valves and releasing a deadly ...