HOUSTON, July 15-- BP PLC started its well integrity test on the Macondo well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico on July 15 following a 24-hr review of test procedures by scientists ...

HOUSTON, July 16-- BP PLC reported an ongoing integrity test of the runaway Macondo well on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 in the Gulf of Mexico shows the well holding steady at 6,700 psi, and crews ...

Following installation of the capping stack and in line with the procedure approved by the National Incident Commander and Unified Area Command, the well integrity test on the MC252 well has commenced ...

UK supermajor BP has closed the main middle ram of the containment cap that has been placed over the blown out Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico but a choke line leak has delayed further progress ...

WASHINGTON — The government and BP continue to monitor leaks that appeared this weekend to be an ominous threat to their effort to contain the gush of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. But they've also ...

This is the statement by National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen released Monday by the Deepwater Hoirzon Incident Joint Information Center: "Yesterday I sent BP a letter stating that there ...

After a government review concluded that pressure tests of a new containment cap would not make the Gulf oil spill worse, BP on Wednesday started the process to begin testing — raising hopes once ...

Alaska regulators on Thursday ordered Hilcorp to pay a $260,477 penalty for failing to conduct a required test of the integrity of a well at the company’s Milne Point Unit on the North Slope. The ...

WASHINGTON — Scientists have detected oil or natural gas seeping from the seafloor near BP's unstable Deepwater Horizon oil well and have also found "undetermined anomalies" near the wellhead that ...

Identify components to test: casing head, tubing head, tree body, master/swab/wing valves, chokes, flanged connections, annulus outlets, VR plug threads. Define barriers: primary (tree + tubing hanger ...