The oil industry’s worst nightmare came true on July 6, 1988. The Piper Alpha oil platform suffered a catastrophic explosion, ...

Offshore drilling is a direct ... caused an explosion and fire that sank the rig and claimed 11 lives. Since then, substantial quantities of oil and gas have leaked from the damaged wellhead ...

Fires and accidents ... and transport offshore oil. A major deposit, known in the trade as an “elephant,” can produce up to 20,000 barrels a day for years. So a single rig can produce revenues ...

More than 30 oil ships could be at risk of deadly accidents ... primary method for many offshore oil and gas producing regions around the world," according to oil rig supplier MODEC.

The mounting pressure on Brazil’s federal environmental agency (IBAMA) to approve the disastrous project to extract oil from the mouth ... to drill – is located offshore 160 kilometers ...

On November 5, 1983, an incident on the Byford Dolphin oil rig saw routine maintenance work end with five workers dying instantly and one escaping with lifechanging injuries. A video ...