Houston Community College is planning a Global Oil and Gas Drilling Training Center, an initiative to address a critical shortage of skilled oil and gas workers by changing how rig crews are recruited ...

HOUSTON — A technician who was aboard the oil rig that exploded April 20 in the Gulf of Mexico says she is too traumatized to testify before a panel investigating the blast and subsequent spill.

Rig and other offshore workers are becoming increasingly worried about the potential spread of the coronavirus with many taking to social media to express their concern about how social distancing and ...

Oil rigs, particularly the offshore type, are one of the most fascinating parts of the global energy industry. How do they work? How big can they get? Do they float on water? It's not surprising that ...

A lawyer for Helix Energy Solutions Group had argued in October that the worker, Michael Hewitt, was not entitled to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act, despite the fact that he regularly ...

Before rig workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizion drilling platform performed a procedure that BP says may have been a "fundamental mistake," there was a "skirmish" between BP and Transocean ...

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in the Bay of Campeche, the state-run oil company workers union said. “Our ...