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 — A Houston company says it has developed a system ready to respond to oil spills worldwide using concepts engineered for the Gulf of Mexico after last year's BP disaster. Wild Well Control, a ...

President Obama glowingly praised Energy Secretary Steven Chu today for, “actually deserving his Nobel prize” and curiously credited him with designing the final cap that eventually plugged the BP oil ...

Oil India Limited (OIL) has finalised the capping of oil well KSG 76 at the Kharsang oilfield in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh following a blowout that resulted in an uncontrolled gas release.

A second capping stack was added in September to the Wild Well Control well containment equipment line- up. The new 18 3/4 inch 15K capping stack is designed for subsea use to 3000 metres. It has four ...

Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], July 23 (ANI): Oil India Ltd has issued a statement on blowout in their gas well at Tinsukia's Baghjan stating that the survey for assessment of damage for compensation in ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The first deep-sea test of a state-of-the-art containment system for stopping an oil spill akin to BP’s catastrophic 2010 spill began on Tuesday, regulators said. The Bureau of ...