Oil may hit shores for months -- 464 turtles dead since spill's start. July 13, 2010— -- As BP begins to test the new cap that the company hopes will finally contain its gushing leak in the Gulf ...

Decades of research shows waves, wind and darkness would defeat containment efforts for much of the year, raising questions ...

Government's Thad Allen says BP 'very close' to stopping oil once and for all. July 12, 2010— -- BP has successfully lowered a new containment cap onto its leaking well, its latest attempt to ...

A valve that should have stopped a storage tank from leaking more than 34,000 gallons of crude oil into Bayou Lafourche was accidentally left open in what a company ...

May 9 (Reuters) - Interference from gas hydrates, a natural phenomenon found on ocean floors, has stopped BP's first attempt to significantly stem the flow of crude oil from a blown-out underwater oil ...

Baltimore Gas and Electric successfully pilots a device that filters out oil in a hydrocarbon spill, so water can be safely discharged into the environment. The decanter allows the water to be either ...

The US Coast Guard is continuing to respond to an oil spill in the Garden Island Bay field just off the coast of Louisiana in Plaquemines Parish. Around 4pm local time on Saturday, the Coast Guard ...