NEW ORLEANS -- An employee of the company that owned the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig testified Tuesday he was surprised when BP scrapped his team's design to stop the gusher in the Gulf of ...

NEW ORLEANS-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 Safety and ...

Fearing an underground collapse of huge proportions, a federal government team nearly forced BP to reopen a capping stack on the leaking Macondo oil well July 16, a move that might have prolonged the ...

HOUSTON — A Houston company says it has developed a system ready to respond to oil spills worldwide using concepts engineered for the Gulf of Mexico after last year's BP disaster. Wild Well Control, a ...

NEW ORLEANS -- BP lied to the U.S. government and withheld information about the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico after its well blew out in 2010, attorneys told a judge Monday. But ...

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 ...