Another train carrying crude oil has derailed in the United States—this one erupting in flames in West Virginia. Yet it ...

Police say two people were hospitalized after they were exposed to a harmful gas near oil wells in Arenac County's Sterling ...

Oil major Shell operates a fleet of giant ships permanently moored over oilfields around the world. The ships receive oil pumped from wells beneath the seabed and transfer it to tankers. Reporting by ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

An oil tanker undergoing repairs at a shipyard in western Indonesia caught fire early Wednesday, killing 10 people and ...

WASHINGTON - A fiery oil train derailment in West Virginia this week exposes lax safety standards and strengthens the case for tougher U.S. rules governing such shipments, safety advocates said on ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fiery wrecks of trains hauling crude oil have intensified pressure on the Obama administration to approve tougher standards for railroads and tank cars despite industry complaints ...

A 26-year-old man riding a gas-powered moped died after a Department of Sanitation-commissioned garbage truck smashed into him in Brooklyn, police said Friday. Both vehicles were traveling westbound ...

Rancher Schuyler Wight aims to prove the Houston-based oil giant Occidental Petroleum faked mechanical integrity tests filed with the Railroad Commission. The company denies all wrongdoing.