SINGAPORE (Reuters) - What jobs offer the highest pay? Investment banking is up there. So is specialist surgery. But consider this. Slightly over twenty years ago, Johnathan Roberts started work on an ...

Top-paid oil rig operaters earn more than $89K. June 16, 2010 — -- The oil industry may be a magnet for controversy in the U.S. right now, with crude continuing to gush from BP's ruined deep ...

North Sea oil-rig workers have a new safety problem — they’re getting too heavy for rescue. According to a BBC report, the ...

Drilling activity continued its downward trend as the rig count fell for a third consecutive week. Oilfield services firm Baker Hughes said Friday its U.S. rig count dropped one rig to 539 rigs, 49 ...

COLUMBIA, Miss. (WDAM) - More than thee months ago, Columbia native Dakota Johnson was killed while working on a land oil rig during a storm. Johnson’s family remembers his ambition and work ethic ...