Five oil-field workers in Oklahoma were missing Monday after a natural gas well blowout 150 miles east of Oklahoma City, local officials said. Patterson-UTI Drilling Co. LLC was drilling a new well for Red Mountain Operating LLC of Oklahoma City when the explosion occurred, according to Kevin Enloe, emergency management director for Pittsburg County, Okla. Seventeen other workers on the site have been accounted for and didn’t have to go to the hospital.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 22, 2018 20:48 UTC