Some Congressional investigators who have consulted with a noted scientist are concerned about reports that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig's well casing is damaged. The fear is "we could end up with ...

WASHINGTON — Several days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the ...

HOUSTON, Texas, August 3, 2010 (ENS) – BP started pumping drilling mud down into the damaged Deepwater Horizon wellhead this afternoon in what the company hopes will be a final attempt to kill the ...

BP chose to use an oil well casing that the company knew was not as safe as a second approach but was considered the better "economic" option, according to a BP document given to The New York Times by ...

I.M. Kutasov MultiSpectrum Technologies Inc. Santa Monica, Calif. Sodium chloride added to drilling mud left in the annulus helps lower the fluid's freeze point, eliminating the chance of casing ...

The static kill is underway. Whether it will kill, slightly impede, or merely pester BP's Macondo well remained unknown late Tuesday, as engineers and scientists at BP's headquarters in suburban ...

Kazem Javanmardi, Ken D. Flodberg Shell Offshore Inc. New Orleans James J. Nahm Shell Development Co. Houston A new mud-to-cement conversion technology has eliminated mud displacement problems, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Getting ready for Thursday's showdown, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has released a bundle of documents that make BP look very shady -- ...