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 ...

The 10-member nonprofit group led by ExxonMobil, Chevon and Shell has two capping stacks to rein in well-control problems and is building a third, in addition to parts of its cap-and-flow system ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Oil India Limited (OIL) has finalised the capping of oil well KSG 76 at the Kharsang oilfield in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh following a blowout that resulted in an uncontrolled gas release.

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 ...

While deepwater operators take numerous precautions to maintain the safety and control of their well sites, they must also be prepared to contain an incident or subsea “blowout” if one should occur.