NEW ORLEANS – BP could have ended its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sooner if it had built a capping stack before the 2010 blowout of its well off the coast of Louisiana, a company executive ...

HOUSTON, Texas, August 23, 2010 (ENS) – BP has gone “fishing” – reaching down nearly a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to remove a section of drill pipe that must come out of the ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday ...

High seas forced crews to stop work on 30 August and are forecast to set the operation back about three days. Seas at the Mississippi Canyon 252 location are between six and eight feet (1.8 to 2.4 ...

Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...