State-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has successfully capped a well on GeoEnpro Petroleum’s (GEPL) Kharsang oilfield in Arunachal Pradesh, India, following a blowout and uncontrolled gas release. The ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say they are going to examine whether the last-resort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable enough in light of the explosion and massive oil spill in ...

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) successfully capped the gas blowout at its crude oil well in Assam’s Sivasagar district after 16 days of gas leakage, Union petroleum minister Hardeep Singh ...

GALETON, Colo. — More than six weeks after an uncontrolled blowout at a Chevron-operated oil and gas well near Galeton, only five of the 14 families who evacuated have returned home. The blowout at ...

The true toll of the BP oil rig blowout and subsequent 206-million gallon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico remains a mystery a year later. How much of the oil safely dispersed, how mush settled into ...

I’ve already asked whether President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium is a smart policy, given the fact that it won’t do much unless we attack oil demand at the source. But I still thought that a ...

into flames and injuring three workers, one critically. A crew was working on the Timber Sharp Rig No. 10 when it blew out at about 7:20 a.m., state police Lt. Larry Rogers said. The cause was unknown ...