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 ...

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, ...

The U.S., still recovering from its BP oil spill hangover, was jolted Thursday by an explosion on an oil and gas production platform owned by Mariner Energy (ME) in the Gulf of Mexico. Had this ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A contractor was killed and two others were injured Saturday during maintenance on a Chevron natural gas pipeline off the Louisiana coast, authorities said. The contractor, whose ...

Mariner Energy, which owns the platform that erupted in flames Thursday, has been involved in more than a dozen offshore accidents in the Gulf of Mexico in the last four years, including at least four ...

{mosads}The department, in a summary of the meeting, did not indentify which industry officials took part. Jewell, according to the summary, noted that Interior had toughened offshore safety rules in ...

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 ...