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Gaps in programs for managing safety at offshore wells BP and Transocean drilled contributed to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster, federal investigators reported in Houston Tuesday. The Chemical ...

June 18 (Reuters) - BP Plc <BP.L> <BP.N> is drilling a pair of relief wells intended to kill the gushing leak in the Gulf of Mexico, which could happen in August at the earliest. Until then, the ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc. on Thursday said its ill-fated Macondo well remains sealed and that an oil sheen spotted on the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the sunken Deepwater Horizon is likely from ...

The static kill is underway. Whether it will kill, slightly impede, or merely pester BP's Macondo well remained unknown late Tuesday, as engineers and scientists at BP's headquarters in suburban ...

Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

Adding the top kill to plans for a bottom kill and cement job through the first relief well could significantly speed the operation, BP exec Kent Wells told reporters during a briefing. Wells has ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...