If this flow of hydrocarbons is not stopped in time, the hydrocarbons can ignite into a deadly firestorm called a blowout. Because of the immense cost and danger associated with oil well blowouts ...

Here, the ferries that shuttle workers to oil rigs in the nearby Gulf of Mexico periodically halt service due to nonpayment.

Oil rigs are critical for supplying ... hole causing his organs to come out of his body. The team descended to a depth of 295 feet to complete their work and used a special chamber to transport ...

saying it dismisses the chance of another disastrous blowout like the… Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico ...

Bananas will not spoil or become mushy if not stored with 1 common ingredient Russian saboteurs blow up 22 ... was home to 5,000 oil workers. Founded in the late 1940s, the rig originally ...

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.

SEVERAL thousand Vietnamese workers protested at Chinese-owned factories today, vandalising some of them. The workers were angry at Beijing's establishment of an oil rig in waters claimed ... Some ...

WARRI, Nigeria-- The 165 oil rig workers who were held captive by job-hungry gunmen are safe and sound, Royal Dutch/Shell officials said Friday. The workers remain at their posts on the rigs ...