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 ...

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 ...

Vantage Drilling has had to terminate its recently-finalised contract to bring an idle drillship back to work. 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 ...

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

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 ...

* 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, ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. NEW ORLEANS • Crews successfully removed the failed blowout preventer from BP's gulf well Friday, an important step toward ...