ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Hilcorp Energy Co. and one of its drilling contractors have each paid fines of $25,000 or more after a worker died at a company drilling rig on Alaska’s North Slope ...

An oil drilling rig holding more than 150,000 gallons of diesel, lubricating oil and hydraulic fluid has run aground near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alaska, after it was being towed during a storm.

The prolonged oil price slump that has forced producers to shelve projects and mothball drilling rigs has led to hundreds of layoffs in Alaska's petroleum industry since the spring of 2015.

The 160 workers on Shell's Perdido oil platform have access to a free restaurant, gym and movie theater. The catch? They toil on this floating oil factory in 12 hour shifts for 14 days straight.

An offshore oil rig worker's typical day is based around 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. This is often organized as two weeks on and three weeks off. Some guys refer to this as a 14/21 shift.

Offshore oil rigs are like small towns out on the water. Here's how many people you can expect to find out there, and how long they stay before a break.

E L PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Five Mexican oil workers were robbed and beaten by gun-toting “pirates” on a rig Feb. 14 in ...

The money is good as well. An offshore worker can earn from £5,000 to £15,000 every three-week shift, depending on their trade and experience.. Rigs have lonely moments, but everyone is family ...

Here, the ferries that shuttle workers to oil rigs in the nearby Gulf of Mexico periodically halt service due to nonpayment. The Hotel Llirre, which exclusively houses oil workers, sits mostly empty.

Amazon’s "The Rig" brings new energy to old eco terrors The binge-worthy thriller views economic anxiety and the green transition through the eyes of North Sea oil workers ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that an energy company employee who earned more than $200,000 a year still qualified for overtime pay under a federal law meant to protect blue-collar workers.

Biden to block oil drilling in ‘irreplaceable’ Alaskan wildlands. In the wake of the Willow decision, such development would be banned in nearly half of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska ...