In the frantic days and weeks after BP's Macondo well exploded, killing 11 people and sending more than 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, blame focused on a piece of equipment to ...

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, Texas, September 3, 2010 (ENS) – Under the direction of the federal science team and U.S. government engineers, BP has lifted the damaged blowout preventer from its position atop the cemented ...

BP on Saturday was working towards replacing the failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico — a key step towards plugging the well with a "bottom kill" as well as ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

HOUSTON, Texas, August 23, 2010 (ENS) – BP has gone “fishing” – reaching down nearly a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to remove a section of drill pipe that must come out of the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday ...

Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...