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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Florida-based equipment rental company agreed to pay roughly $245,000 in civil penalties to resolve accusations that it violated state environmental laws when it failed to fix a pair of broken oil ...

More than 1 million gallons of crude oil have been collected from the longest-running oil spill in U.S. history, located off Louisiana’s coast at a Taylor Energy platform that collapsed during ...

(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 ...