Bizerte, Tunisia: An offshore oil platform that ... AFP reporters saw. The accident occurred on Saturday night when the oil rig broke away from its towboat due to bad weather, a National Guard ...

More than 30 oil ships could be at risk of deadly accidents ... primary method for many offshore oil and gas producing regions around the world," according to oil rig supplier MODEC.

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with Kailem Donovan, an offshore rope access rigger who works on oil rigs in the North and Baltic seas. It has been edited for length ...

where a majority of U.S. offshore oil drilling occurs --also where the largest oil spill in country's history occurred, at the Deepwater Horizon rig. That terrible incident highlights just one of ...