Federal Safety Board Links Plugged Drill Pipe to Deadly Oklahoma Well Fire August 17, 2018 By Liz Hampton There were signs that a natural gas well was not fully sealed before it exploded in January, killing five workers,...
Houston Still Rebuilding From Last Year’s Floods as 2018 Hurricane Season Arrives June 4, 2018 By Liz Hampton and Ernest Scheyder In an empty lot where Vincent Shields’ Houston home once stood, he points out properties whose owners were driven out...
Oil Firms Using Robots, Drones for Dangerous Offshore Work June 4, 2018 By Liz Hampton At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic...
Robots, Drones Changing How Oil Firms Handle Dangerous Offshore Work May 13, 2018 By Liz Hampton At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic...
Death of Worker on Energy Platform Off Louisiana Coast Under Investigation March 5, 2018 By Ernest Scheyder and Liz Hampton An oil and gas worker on a Talos Energy LLC platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was killed on...
Employees Missing After Oklahoma Drilling Rig Fire January 22, 2018 By Liz Hampton Drilling contractor Patterson-UTI said some of its employees were missing on Monday after a fire at one of its drilling...
Tropical Storm Cindy Bears Down on Gulf Coast June 22, 2017 By Liz Hampton Tropical Storm Cindy churned slowly on Wednesday across the Gulf of Mexico toward an expected landing on the Texas-Louisiana border,...
Weak Safety Standards Caused California Exxon Refinery Blast, Agency Says May 15, 2017 By Erwin Seba and Liz Hampton The U.S. Chemical Safety Board concluded in a report issued earlier this month that a 2015 explosion at a Torrance,...
Weak Safety Standards Caused California Exxon Refinery Blast, Agency Says May 3, 2017 By Erwin Seba and Liz Hampton The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has concluded that a 2015 explosion at a Torrance, Calif., refinery then owned by Exxon...
Pipeline Owner: North Dakota Crude Spill Larger than First Estimated March 28, 2017 By Liz Hampton A crude oil spill in western North Dakota in December is now believed to be about three times bigger than...