An extended closure of lanes on westbound Interstate 80 is expected Friday afternoon after a big rig crash and oil spill, ...

A total of four people have been injured after an oil rig in Grady County caught fire on Friday afternoon. Grady County Fire Chief Rodney Gregory says the fire began as an explosion at the rig, ...

(Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude oil ...

(Reuters) - An oil drilling rig with 67 crew on board capsized and sank off the Russian far east island of Sakhalin on Sunday. Here is a timeline of some major oil industry accidents in the past 30 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Federal regulators did not need this week's explosion aboard a state-of-the-art rig to know the offshore drilling industry needed new safety rules: Dozens of deaths and hundreds of ...

News 4 received the following statement Tuesday evening from a Red Rocks Oil and Gas Operating spokesperson: Yesterday at around 2 p.m., the Newby 2 Well near Bradley, Oklahoma, suddenly and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico’s coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of ...

WILLISTON, N.D. (AP) — A man working on an oil rig in western North Dakota was crushed by a tank and killed, authorities said. Karl Heller, 31, of Piedmont, S.D., was killed Tuesday morning. The oil ...

Matthew Rodriguez is a digital producer for CBS Los Angeles. He's previously reported for local outlets like the Argonaut and Pasadena Weekly. Matt typically covers breaking news and crime. Two people ...