NEW YORK — A group of oil companies led by Exxon said today that it has built a system that can stop an undersea oil spill within weeks, a critical step towards resuming drilling in the deepest parts ...

In a Shell contractor's test of the spill containment dome last year, it was said to have been "crushed like a beer can." From KUOW in Seattle: Neither Shell nor the federal government announced the ...

A group of oil companies led by Exxon said Thursday it has built an interim system that can stop an undersea oil spill within weeks, a critical step towards resuming drilling in the deepest parts of ...

Railcar spill containment systems are likely to witness robust demand in the foreseeable future, with an expected 2X increase in crude oil-by-rail shipments by 2020, according to International Energy ...

HOUSTON, May 6-- BP PLC and its contractors worked May 6 to lower an oil spill containment structure about 5,000 ft down to the seabed on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 off Louisiana in the Gulf of ...

SEATTLE--The vessel designated to act as a crucial oil spill containment system in Arctic waters has obtained Coast Guard approval to meet less rigorous weather standards than originally proposed. But ...