Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

HOUSTON, Texas, August 23, 2010 (ENS) – BP has gone “fishing” – reaching down nearly a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to remove a section of drill pipe that must come out of the ...

Drilling has been pushed back by at least two months and Hess hopes to resume drilling up to two appraisals at Equus in April before its contract with the rig ends in July. Officials with Santos in ...

Contractor Valaris is investigating what caused the blowout preventer stack to fall off its DS-8 drillship while the rig was moving between well locations off Angola earlier this week. According to a ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A faulty blowout preventer and weaknesses in how companies analyze potential hazards in offshore oil and gas operations contributed to BP Plc's deadly Gulf of Mexico oil spill more ...

Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...