In the frantic days and weeks after BP's Macondo well exploded, killing 11 people and sending more than 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, blame focused on a piece of equipment to ...

NEW ORLEANS – BP could have ended its massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico sooner if it had built a capping stack before the 2010 blowout of its well off the coast of Louisiana, a company executive ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday ...

BP on Saturday was working towards replacing the failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico — a key step towards plugging the well with a "bottom kill" as well as ...