Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all. Earlier this week, the steel rig stationed on the Atchafalaya ...

Offshore has been hit particularly hard during the oil slump, and many companies are cutting offshore rig jobs. Seadrill Americas Inc., the Houston-based arm of London-based Seadrill Management Ltd., ...

MORGAN CITY, La. – MORGAN CITY, La. (AP) — Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana's coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all. Earlier this week, ...

The robot on an oil drillship in the Gulf of Mexico made it easier for Mark Rodgers to do his job stringing together heavy, dirty pipes. It could also be a reason he’s not working there today. The ...

PASCAGOULA -- A $10.6 million dredging project has resulted in the first of what Signal International LLC hopes will be much more work, the company announced this week. Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.

LITTLE ROCK — In addition to the fishermen and hoteliers whose livelihoods have been devastated by BP’s hemorrhaging undersea oil well, another group of Gulf Coast residents is beginning to suffer: ...

Mr. Charlie has seen the up and downs over the years in the oil patch off Louisiana’s coast, but this could be the toughest slump of all. Earlier this week, the steel rig stationed on the Atchafalaya ...