Oil India Limited (OIL) has finalised the capping of oil well KSG 76 at the Kharsang oilfield in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh following a blowout that resulted in an uncontrolled gas release.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators say they are going to examine whether the last-resort cutoff valves on offshore oil wells are reliable enough in light of the explosion and massive oil spill in ...

State-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has successfully capped a well on GeoEnpro Petroleum’s (GEPL) Kharsang oilfield in Arunachal Pradesh, India, following a blowout and uncontrolled gas release. The ...

WELD COUNTY, Colo. — It's expected to take five years to clean up after a Chevron-operated oil well blowout in Weld County in April. Chevron has already hauled out 7,000 cubic yards of soil and 89,000 ...

GALETON, Colo. — More than six weeks after an uncontrolled blowout at a Chevron-operated oil and gas well near Galeton, only five of the 14 families who evacuated have returned home. The blowout at ...

DENVER (KDVR) — A month after an oil and gas well blowout occurred in Weld County, some of the residents who were evacuated because of potential health impacts are still not back in their homes. On ...

An oil rig blew out Thursday in New Mexico, bursting into flames and injuring three workers, one critically. A crew was working on the Timber Sharp Rig No. 10 when it blew out at about 7:20 a.m., ...

The true toll of the BP oil rig blowout and subsequent 206-million gallon oil spill into the Gulf of Mexico remains a mystery a year later. How much of the oil safely dispersed, how mush settled into ...

Early one morning in March 2010, Captain Gary Jarvis cast a heavyweight line into the Gulf of Mexico from the deck of his 57 foot charter boat, Backdown 2. The sun hadn’t yet risen. But bright white ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...