May 13 (Reuters) - An offshore gas drilling platform sank off the coast of Venezuela on Thursday, less than a month after a rig sank off the coast of Louisiana and left thousands of barrels of crude ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures — an apt characterization of energy giant BP’s ongoing, checkered response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Last weekend, the company’s plan to lower a ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A Qatari company says one of its oil drilling rigs will need several months of repairs and maintenance after an accident off the Gulf nation’s coast. Gulf ...

The Midtown Tunnel leak was quickly fixed following this month’s accidental perforation, MTA officials said Wednesday — but the city agency responsible for the drilling mishap is still investigating ...

Nelson, a Florida Democrat who has led opposition to offshore drilling, said he asked the U.S. Interior Department to investigate and provide a comprehensive report on all U.S. drilling accidents over ...

The city’s Economic Development Corporation has halted drilling work and will conduct an investigation into how a subcontractor ended up punching a hole through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel on Wednesday, ...