Kailem Donovan, 37, from Middlesborough, England, works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. Donovan works 12-hour shifts but gets three weeks of holiday every three weeks working on the rig. He ...

I had an interesting conversation last week with one of our readers, Sal from Louisiana, who works on an offshore oil rig in the Gulf. This is certainly a "dirty job" but I was impressed by how these ...

Environmental activists partied outside the San Francisco Ferry Building on Friday to celebrate the decommission of a Southern California oil rig. The Center for Biological Diversity called the event ...

Yet again, the fate of downtown's Humble-Exxon tower is in doubt. Once a major point of Houston pride, the 1963 skyscraper sat empty for more than a decade. Now it's tangled in a foreclosure battle.