Former saltwater disposal operator Mike Mercado successfully completed coursework at the Alamo Area Law Enforcement Academy where part of his training including using an immersive 3-D simulator.

A 56-year-old man died Wednesday in a gas well explosion in Fremont County near Jeffrey City. The incident is being ...

Once, he viewed the world from the top of a 70-foot oil derrick. Eagles would pass as he worked in the Wyoming wind. He would use his whole body to keep balance, attaching solid steel piping that ...

The push to bolster fossil fuel production is heightening concerns among oil field workers and first responders about the mounting dangers facing workers ...

Texas oil and gas field employment slipped over the summer as crude prices hovered just above break-even levels and global supplies stayed abundant. Nearly 3,000 upstream workers, about 1.5% of the ...

Thousands gathered at the Permian Basin International Oil Show to connect, explore new technologies, and discuss the future ...

Imagine searching for oil in western Canada and instead of finding fossil fuel, you find a fossil! That’s just what happened when workers at an oil sand site in Canada found a 110-million-year-old ...

Some 324 Norwegian offshore oil workers plan to go on strike from Sept. 30 if annual pay negotiations with employers fail, trade unions Safe, Industri Energi and Lederne said on Wednesday.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The number of auto accidents involving three or more deaths has more than doubled in Texas since 2010, with more fatalities occurring along roads seeing increased traffic because of ...