The three ram capping stack was installed on the Deep Water Horizon LMRP at 7 p.m. CDT (July 12). The stack completes the installation of the new sealing cap. Following installation of the capping ...

During the exercise, Helix’s capping stack will be mobilised and deployed to the sea floor in 5047 feet of water, latched to a test wellhead and pressurised. The exercise also is designed to test ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HWCG LLC and Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. are pleased to announce a significant expansion of HWCG’s deepwater well containment incident response capabilities in 2019. In ...

HOUSTON, Texas, July 16, 2010 (ENS) – For the first time since BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well blew out on April 20, oil has stopped spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. But the crisis is not over yet.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The first deep-sea test of a state-of-the-art containment system for stopping an oil spill akin to BP’s catastrophic 2010 spill began on Tuesday, regulators said. The Bureau of ...

While deepwater operators take numerous precautions to maintain the safety and control of their well sites, they must also be prepared to contain an incident or subsea “blowout” if one should occur.

Delmar’s HCLS technology counters subsea motion, isolating the system from underwater turbulence to create a stable base for positioning the capping stack in shallow waters. The system’s step-by-step ...

The UK supermajor says it has learned innumerable lessons from the blowout of its Macondo well, which killed 11 people and sunk a drilling rig. Oil spewed from the ruptured well for weeks after the ...