The firms drilling a BP Gulf of Mexico oil well had tests showing cement used to seal it before it blew out was unstable, US investigators have found.
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Cement flaws ‘known before Gulf spill’
The companies drilling the BP Gulf of Mexico oil well had test results showing cement used to seal it before the blowout was unstable, US investigators find.
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Cement flaws ‘known before BP spill’
The blown-out BP oil well at the heart of the worst spill in U.S. history has been cemented shut and is “effectively dead,” the government said today.
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BP oil well declared dead
BP’s relief well has finally intersected the damaged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and is ready to permanently seal it.
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BP relief well ‘reaches target’
BP says it resumed drilling on a relief well as efforts to permanently seal the previously leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well appeared to be entering their final stages.
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BP installs sleeve, resumes drilling relief well in Gulf
BP removes the blowout preventer that failed to stem the leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well and says it has paid $8bn (£5.2bn) in damage costs.
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BP blowout preventer ‘removed’
The operation to completely seal off the ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well is pushed back to September, US officials say.
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BP oil spill: Final seal delayed
More state restrictions on fishing in the Gulf of Mexico were lifted Monday as the fall shrimping season began, but efforts to permanently plug the ruptured BP oil well were delayed again.
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Plumes of oil spread east on Gulf floor
BP has said it is going ahead with plans to make sure its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is permanently sealed, by pumping cement in through a second relief well.
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BP pushes on with Gulf relief well
GULF SWING: Cement is now drying inside BP’s notorious Gulf oil well, the latest in a series of developments that suggest the worst of the disaster may be over.
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Weekend Briefing
ALL IS NOT WELL: BP plans to pump cement into its mud-plugged oil well in the Gulf of Mexico today, hoping to solidify the muddy blockage that stopped it from leaking oil earlier in the week. But while crude is no longer gushing from the well — and the U.S.
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Daily Briefing: Thurs.
