NEW ORLEANS — A dispute between the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and the federal government over how a key piece of evidence is being handled has been resolved. A lawyer for ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — BP is suing the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill, alleging negligence that the oil giant says helped cause the disaster. The ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...

WASHINGTON • Lawmakers eager to prevent another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and prove to voters that they're responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — are insisting on new standards for ...

Halliburton (NYSE: HAL), in collaboration with Aker BP, executed the first operation using the Enhanced Remote Operated ...

* Tests found problems with relief well blowout preventers * Problems fixed, equipment passes subsequent tests By Kristen Hays and Anna Driver HOUSTON, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken ...

WASHINGTON - The hydraulic system that powered the blowout preventer at BP's failed Macondo well may never have had the capacity to stop last year's Gulf of Mexico spill or any other such emergency, ...

These steel monsters known as blowout preventers or BOPs _ sometimes as big as a double-decker bus and weighing up to 640,000 pounds _ guard the mouth of wells. They act as the last defense to choke ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, the ...

The digital hydraulic control and OTHOS enabled the accurate installation and alignment of the vertical Christmas Tree tubing hanger.