Cutoff valves like the one that failed to stop the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster have repeatedly broken down at other wells in the years since federal regulators weakened testing requirements ...

An oily water mix began spraying from the well on April 26 and wasn't stopped until May 4 after crews were able to dig their ...

There are no reliable estimates of how much oil is pouring into the gulf. But it comes to many millions of gallons since the catastrophic blowout. Eleven men were killed in the explosions that ...

Chevron has already removed 7,000 cubic yards of soil and 89,000 gallons of liquid, according to state regulators.

WASHINGTON — The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point ...

Experts warn that more blowouts should be expected unless oil and gas companies change their methods. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI ...

The blowout occurred during drilling in the Athens ... TABLEAUX IN MUD - Workers struggle to put cap with a shutoff valve in place after an oil well being drilled at Figueroa St. and El Segundo ...

It’s the first study to draw specific links between wastewater injection and recent blowouts in the Permian Basin, the nation’s top producing oil field, where old oil wells have lately begun ...

to be precise), a similar incident happened closer home – the blowout involving an Oil field in the Niger Delta operated by one of the major International Oil Companies (IOCs). Like the Deep ...

The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill failed largely because of a faulty design and a trapped piece of pipe, an official probe found Wednesday, appearing to shift some ...

A study from Southern Methodist University in August linked the common practice of injecting wastewater from fracking to the well blowouts occurring in the oil-rich Permian Basin, which spans a ...

The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout – a devastating sequence of equipment failures – drives home a central unsettling point about America ...