The total number of active drilling rigs for oil and gas in the United States rose this week, according to new data that ...

British families of those killed in a Norwegian oil rig disaster have welcomed a decision to set up a compensation scheme ...

One of California’s worst oil spills occurred off the Santa Barbara coast in 2015, when a corroded pipeline burst ...

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U.S. energy firms this week added oil and natural gas rigs for a fourth week in a row for the first time since February, energy services firm Baker Hughes said in its closely followed report on Friday ...

An increasingly hot-button issue, oil rigs have become the physical embodiment of larger economic and environmental debates, garnering praise from conservative politicians and the ire of environmental ...

An owl has been saved from a North Sea oil rig after being blown nearly 200 miles off course by storm winds. The short-eared ...

While Canada’s rig count is up week-over-week, the count is down 19 from the 217 rigs working this time last year. This week, ...

With federal data delayed, TIPRO estimates Texas upstream jobs at 204,075 in Sept., with 10,167 postings as Permian gains ...

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud of insects would descend from the sky and land on the upper reaches of the platform. At such a critical ...