Wild Well Control has stationed a second emergency subsea capping stack for stopping or diverting deep-water oil well blowouts at its facility near the Kim Heng Quayside near Loyang in Singapore. The ...

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 ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Shell Oil drill vessels are heading to the Arctic. But they will not be permitted to drill into petroleum-bearing rock until a key piece of blowout response equipment, a ...

BP’s Global Deepwater Well Cap and Tooling Package consists of about 250 separate pieces, including kit for dispersing oil and removing debris. The capping stack is available for call-out any day, ...

During the 87 days of the BP oil spill last year, the Gulf Coast and the rest of the nation watched in dismay as the oil giant and the government fumbled numerous attempts to stop the runaway well ...

A group of oil companies that put together a device to stop deep-water oil leaks says the equipment can now contain spills at depths of 10,000 feet, 2,000 more than before. “This increase in our ...

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 ...

HOUSTON & COLICO, Italy--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HWCG, a deepwater oil and gas emergency response consortium for the US Gulf of Mexico, announces today that it has commissioned Advanced Technology Valve, S.p ...

The new systems could increase the oil capture ability to 80,000 barrels each day, enough to contain all of the oil, but switching containment caps would temporarily increase the amount flowing ...