Oil rig jobs can seem very appealing in any job market, but there are a number of harsh realities to working on them that ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Wilfredo Cruz went to the doctor in October of last year to have his brain scanned because he was experiencing vertigo ...

With no time to spare, state government has funded the first focused effort to retrain Kern County oil and gas workers, delivering the first of what local officials hope will be sustained efforts by ...

Thousands of North Sea oil workers will be deemed too heavy to work offshore under new regulations planned for next year. New guidance from industry body Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) means that from ...

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ...

Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

I want to take a moment to applaud the contributions of a group we often take for granted — our Pennsylvania natural gas and oil workers. The over 90,000 hardworking Pennsylvanians in the natural gas ...

When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea. Workers involved in the cleanup were exposed to crude ...

Around 10,000 offshore oil and gas workers are spending the Christmas and New Year holiday “far out on the dark seas around ...

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FILE - A cleanup worker picks up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., June 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald ...