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 ...

(Adds details, byline) By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, July 26 (Reuters) - BP Plc <BP.L><BP.N> could start the final procedure to kill its ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico late next week despite storm ...

BP officials say they plan to begin forcing cement down the blown-out Gulf oil well on Thursday. The announcement came Wednesday night shortly after the energy company's plan was approved by National ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Wednesday it appears drilling mud, not oil, was gushing from a ruptured undersea well six hours into an effort to halt a growing oil ...