which occurred after an explosion and fire rocked a BP oil rig about 40 miles off the Louisiana coast. Oil gushed from the damaged well head for 87 days before it was finally capped. It ranks as ...

Hundreds of workers evacuated after a deadly explosion, — -- An explosion and ensuing fire on an oil rig in the Gulf of ... into the shallow waters to escape the blaze.

It is now clear that the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill was eminently preventable. And even since the April 20 rig fire, experts ... BP never had a realistic plan to deal with a spill ...

and as he turned to escape whatever it was they feared, it exploded. "I felt a huge heat wave hit my back," he said. "I felt like I was on fire." The Nabors oil rig, operated by Enron Oil and Gas ...

The Coast Guard says two men aboard the Arena oil platform used a life capsule to escape the ... Guard says the fire that broke out Sunday morning has been put out. The rig 50 miles south of ...

it lacks the expertise to fight a fire aboard an oil rig and did not even have ships in the area equipped to combat the blaze after the BP-operated rig exploded. That left the task of knocking ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- Firefighters battled an intense oil rig fire in Weld County on Monday night. The flames reached 30 feet high at one point. The oil rig is located off Weld County Roads ...

COALGATE (AP) — An explosion and fire at a southeastern Oklahoma oil rig early Friday killed two workers, one of whom was from Tulsa, and injured three others, two of them critically.