BP is set to begin shutting in its Macondo oilwell with the newly-installed three-ram containment cap stack, which if successful could permanently shut off the oil flow and bring an end to nearly 90 ...

In 2010, the industry came together to bring BP’s Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico under control. The blowout, explosion and fire on the semi-submersible Deepwater Horizon was not the offshore ...

BP PLC flushed hydrates from inside Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer and a capping stack on the blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. BP hoped to replace ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 16 – The National Incident Commander for the oil spill response asked BP PLC, operator of the deepwater Macondo well, to continue taking pressure readings in the blowout preventer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

BP could have ended its Gulf of Mexico oil spill sooner if it had built a capping stack before the 2010 blowout of its well off the Louisiana coast, a company executive said under cross-examination at ...

BP Plc came up with the idea for the capping stack that initially stopped the flow of oil from the Macondo Gulf well soon after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April but the idea was ...

Investigators exploring the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico reported Monday that underestimates of the amount of oil flowing from the blown-out Macondo well impeded attempts by BP ...

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 ...