oil field

A listener, who is working in the oil field in Texas, sent us a photo that appears to have some form of image in it.

KATC has confirmed an early morning platform fire with the U.S. Coast Guard 100 miles south of Vermilion Bay in the Gulf of Mexico.

The family of a Eunice man tells us he is "doing ok" after him and three other workers evacuated a production platform that caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

Fuelfix.com is reporting that in an internal memo, it states that the company plans to "flatten the company's business by cutting management posts".

We truly wish that number was "0", but we know Frank's and the entire industry have been impacted adversely by the decline in energy prices.

Yesterday, Lionsgate/Summit Entertainment released our first look at Mark Wahlberg as Mike Williams, an electronics technician who survived the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

The Department of Energy gives the go ahead on a project that will mean thousands of jobs to the Acadiana area.

We have learned over the past year with tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico that while not everyone in South Louisiana works in the oil field. We all have purse strings that are tied to petroleum, the life blood of the Lafayette Economy. The administration's moratorium on drilling has crippled if not fatally wounded local shops and business' from machine shops to daycare.Now that oil prices are starting