ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) - BP lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, an important step in a delicate and unprecedented attempt to stop most ...

PORT FORCHOUN -- A 12-man crew Wednesday afternoon was making final preparations to take a 100-ton contraption to the Gulf of Mexico to help funnel out oil spewing from the bottom of the sea. The ...

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 ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Underwater robots positioned a giant 100-ton concrete-and-steel box over a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico on Friday as workers prepared to drop the device ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most of ...

Lagos — The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has inaugurated a bi-Technical Committee made up of NOSDRA officials and those from Marine Platform Ltd. for the application of ...

A BP-chartered vessel lowered a 100-ton concrete-and-steel vault onto a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday in an unprecedented attempt to stop most of the gushing crude fouling the sea. The ...

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 ...

Icelike crystals encrusting a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box meant to contain oil gushing from a broken well deep in the Gulf of Mexico forced crews Saturday to back off the long-shot plan, while more ...

EMERGENCY CREWS NOW TASKED WITH CLEANING UP THOUSANDS OF GALLONS OF OIL THAT SPILLED ALMOST TWO MILES INTO THE ALLEGHENY RIVER THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE BRAEBURN STEEL MILL. THE SUBSTANCE WAS IDENTIFIED ...