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 ...

HOUSTON, May 6-- BP PLC and its contractors worked May 6 to lower an oil spill containment structure about 5,000 ft down to the seabed on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 off Louisiana in the Gulf of ...

HOUSTON, Oct. 15-- ExxonMobil Corp., on behalf of Marine Well Containment Co. (MWCC), awarded a front-end engineering design contract to Technip for containment equipment to be used on wells in as ...

HOUSTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc is putting finishing touches on a system of vessels and equipment that could be used in a rapid response to a future deepwater oil spill in ...

NEW ORLEANS — Highly anticipated and controversial cleanup operations will begin this week at a 15-year-long oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Wednesday. A Taylor Energy ...

Helix Energy Solutions Group is putting finishing touches on a system of vessels and equipment that could be used in a rapid response to a future deep-water oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...

Timmy Couvillion knew the leak from the toppled Taylor Energy oil platform was bad. For 15 years, the platform’s damaged wells had sent up an oily sheen that sometimes stretched for miles across the ...

WASHINGTON — The battle to contain BP's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is approaching two critical junctures in coming days that could affect how the months-long catastrophe ...

BP said it was making progress drilling relief wells as cleanup of the oil in the Gulf of Mexico showed signs of improving. Jeffrey Brown recaps the latest developments in the Gulf oil disaster. There ...

Tropical Storm Alex, which could reach hurricane strength today, will delay the installation of BP's latest oil containment system by at least a week, though the drilling of two relief wells and ...

NEW ORLEANS (WWL-TV)— Highly anticipated and controversial cleanup operations will begin this week at a 15-year-long oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Wednesday. A Taylor ...