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 ...

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 ...

Just months after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, which leaked millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, another Gulf oil rig exploded into flames Thursday.

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 ...