The scores of large oil production platforms and many more unmanned drilling rigs clustered in the southern Gulf of Mexico, employ thousands of oil industry workers. Some live on the platforms ...

Late last year, following four years of construction, Shell 011 Company's recordsetting "Auger" tension leg platform ... first in the Gulf of Mexico to support both a drilling rig and complete ...

An oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico that caught fire after an explosion on Tuesday night has now sunk, the US Coast Guard has said. A search is continuing for 11 missing workers after the blast at ...