The Texas Department of Public Safety tells KFDM/Fox 4 News a tire blowout caused a fatal 18 wheeler crash in Newton ...

On any other day, David Rodriguez’s truck would have been helping extract oil, and as he sucked mud from a well beneath a towering drilling rig ... caused a blowout that dumped hot water ...

blowouts risk becoming extremely dangerous. Also known as a Floorhand, a Chainhand is a special vocation among oil riggers.

Black water erupted from another West Texas oil well last week in the same ... worsening the recent rash of foul water blowouts affecting the area. The most recent blowout outside Grandfalls ...

Hailing from Texas, Mike Williams worked on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig as the Chief Electronics Technician ... Simultaneously, the blowout’s first big explosion took hold, sweeping up the ...

(KVII) — A Texas man is dead after a tire blew out on the semi he was ... the driver's side front steering tire blew out and immediately went to the rim. The big rig went left of center, crossed into ...

I was working for Exxon as a production geologist on King Ranch in south Texas ... well-known blowout controller. I grabbed my hard hat, and in less than 26 minute, I was at the rig where a ...

Texas Tech leaders hope to strike black gold ... an additional 25 feet into the air to be to install the blow-out prevention equipment. Once all is said and done, he said, graduate and ...

SABINE PASS, Texas — A jack up oil rig is still burning at a Sabine Pass shipyard Friday morning almost 24 hours after a fire broke out trapping nine workers who had to be rescued by helicopter.

SoCalGas hired Boots & Coots, a well-control company owned by the Houston oil services giant Halliburton, to get the blowout under control ... work on the offshore rig before the 2010 disaster.