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 ...

Among the tools BP has been using to respond to spill in the Gulf of Mexico are floating booms designed to contain the oil. The Connecticut company that invented oil containment booms is working ...

An unidentified "leading integrated oil and gas company" recently took delivery of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) from L3Harris Technologies, a USV designed to help out during oil spill response ...

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

The Policy Position addresses open bermed containment systems (“BCS”) at commercial retail facilities that are used to meet spill prevention and equipment requirements for underground storage tanks ...

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 ...

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 ...

* BP says progress is good on putting bigger cap on well * Installing new cap could take 4-7 days, BP says * 1 relief well to intercept Macondo in late July-BP * Justice Dept has started interviewing ...

The Interior Department approved the first deepwater oil exploration plan for the Gulf of Mexico since the April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and the months-long oil spill that ...