Italy's coastguard said Wednesday it had evacuated 26 people after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Adriatic Sea, but no injuries or pollution have been reported.

Coast Guard crews battled a blaze on an oil rig off the coast of Italy. The fire broke out on the Rospo Mare B oil platform ...

The world's worst offshore disaster was on the Piper Alpha rig in 1988 when 167 men died. Oil production has slowed in the past decade but new discoveries are still being made in the North Sea.

A plan to resume offshore oil drilling in Santa Barbara, California, has reopened old wounds in a city where a 1969 oil spill ...

AN unexploded bomb has been found near an oil pipeline in the North Sea. Oil giant Shell said it is working with a ...

OMV has been granted a permit by the Norwegian Offshore Directorate to drill an oil and gas exploration well in the North Sea.