OSLO, Norway (AP) – Statoil on Wednesday evacuated 326 oil rig workers from a North Sea platform after the structure began to tilt, the Norwegian oil company said. Company spokesman Ole Anders Skauby ...

Modern offshore oil rigs are engineering wonders designed to accommodate massive crews and operate in some of the most hostile environments on Earth. As the demand for oil drives exploration into ...

'It's at the bottom of the sea.' Rescue crews, try to save the sinking P-36 oil rig on Monday about 80 miles off the coast of Macae, Brazil. The Brazilian Petrobras oil company said the rig sank in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The world's biggest floating oil rig sank in the South Atlantic on Tuesday, and the state oil company Petrobras said some of the 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel on board had ...