While President Donald Trump's administration was working to relax offshore drilling regulations, there was a spike in offshore accidents and a decrease in safety inspections, according to an analysis ...

In its Annual Offshore Performance Report, the National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environment Management Authority (Nopsema) said the rate of accidents had fallen to their lowest level since 2005, ...

WASHINGTON - The nation's newest offshore drilling regulator thinks crunching numbers now could avoid crushing disasters later. Brian Salerno, director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental ...

Faced with questions about its commitment to safety, the Interior Department sent teams to the Gulf of Mexico last week to inspect giant cranes used in offshore oil and gas operations that are a ...

HOUSTON, Feb. 7 The complexities of deep wells and extended-reach drilling are bigger factors in offshore accidents than water depth or whether the operator is a major or independent producer, an ...

GALVESTON, Texas A crane accident killed a Katy man who was working on an offshore production platform, an official said Thursday. Brandon Noland, 20, died about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday at the platform, ...

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - Two people were killed in an accident on the Shell Auger Tension Leg Platform Sunday morning (June 30), according to a Shell spokeswoman. The nature of the accident was not ...

(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 oil ...

Nov. 5, 2002 — Vestas has reported that an accident damaged one of its offshore test wind turbines. On Nov. 4, 2002, an accident occurred with a Vestas V80-2.0 MW offshore test turbine, which is ...

Industrial accidents in the UK's offshore oil and gas industry are at record lows, but a series of helicopter losses this year with 33 fatalities has ensured that air safety in the sector is enduring ...