WASHINGTON COUNTY, Ohio. (WSAZ) - Several people were injured in Washington County, Ohio, after an oil rig explosion. Washington County is in the Southeastern part of Ohio. According to the St. Mary’s ...

Multiple people are seriously hurt after an oil rig explosion in Washington County, Ohio.Washington County is located in eastern Ohio, near West Virginia. According to the fire chief, at least six ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say they are going to examine whether the last-resort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable enough in light of the explosion and massive oil spill in ...

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 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. At 14,000 tons and 2.5 times the height of the Statue of Liberty, the Piper Alpha oil rig was one of the largest in the world. But on July 6, 1988 ...

The new explosion on a gulf oil production platform Thursday revved up support for the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, just as oil companies were mounting an offensive against ...