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 ...

Mississippi Canyon 20 Saratoga oil platform collapsed after Hurricane Ivan in 2004. Oil and gas discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and rise to the ocean surface creating a visible oil sheen. (Courtesy ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. A group of oil companies led by Exxon said Thursday it has built a system that can stop an undersea oil spill within weeks, a ...

HOUSTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc is putting finishing touches on a system of vessels and equipment that could be used in a rapid response to a future deepwater oil spill in ...

Helix Energy Solutions Group is putting finishing touches on a system of vessels and equipment that could be used in a rapid response to a future deep-water oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the ...

HOUSTON, May 5-- One of three oil leaks from a deepwater well feeding an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was stopped, and a subsea containment system was en route to the well, BP PLC reported May 5.

Timmy Couvillion knew the leak from the toppled Taylor Energy oil platform was bad. For 15 years, the platform’s damaged wells had sent up an oily sheen that sometimes stretched for miles across the ...

NEW ORLEANS (U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Heartland)— The Coast Guard and a team of contractors successfully deployed a subsea system that is able to contain and collect oil being discharged from the ...

NEW YORK A group of oil companies led by Exxon said Thursday it has built a system that can stop an undersea oil spill within weeks, a critical step toward resuming drilling in the deepest parts of ...

HOUSTON, May 10-- Oil spill response crews on May 10 continued working on a subsea containment system to reduce the flow of oil spilled by a deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana while ...

May 6 (Reuters) - A 98-ton steel containment chamber, or cofferdam, reached the site of a massive oil leak 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of the Louisiana coastline on Thursday. The device is intended ...