BISMARCK, N.D. _ A blowout at an oil well site four miles south of Watford City will likely take days to stop, a state regulator said Friday. North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources director Lynn ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — It's expected to take five years to clean up after a Chevron-operated oil well blowout in Weld County in April. Chevron has already hauled out 7,000 cubic yards of soil and 89,000 ...

BP took some of the blame for the Gulf oil disaster in an internal report issued Wednesday, acknowledging among other things that it misinterpreted a key pressure test of the well. But in a possible ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Oil industry and government officials could get caught flat-footed again by another deep-water blowout in the coming months because they have yet to incorporate many of the lessons ...

Fifteen workers were killed and 180 injured in an explosion at a BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, on March 23, 2005. An ...

The fire broke out on the rig on Monday while it was working in the US state “after a well control incident”, the Oslo-listed company said in a statement. It stated that all employees working on the ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Chevron has identified the factors that caused a days-long oil and gas release in Weld County in April. The “uncontrolled release” happened at a Chevron oil and gas facility northeast ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The flow of natural gas, water and sand has been stopped at a drilling rig off Louisiana’s coast, the operator and federal regulators said Saturday. The flow stopped about 7 p.m.