NEW ORLEANS, May 10 (UPI) -- Emergency workers looked for additional tactics after they were unable to place a large containment dome over a leaking oil wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico. BP, the oil ...

The Coast Guard says it is responding to a report of a collision between a boat and an inactive oil wellhead, which is now discharging an oily-water mixture. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans ...

The accident between a dredge barge and an oil wellhead in lower Jefferson caused a 100-foot plume of oil, natural gas and contaminated water to spew into the Barataria Waterway, parish and Coast ...

The worst-case scenario for the broken and leaking well gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico would be the loss of the wellhead currently restricting the flow to 5,000 barrels -- or 210,000 gallons per ...

After capping a damaged oil wellhead in lower Jefferson Parish last weekend, federal, state and local officials are turning their attention to cleaning up at least 7,000 gallons of oil that spilled ...

PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. — A possible oil spill in Barataria Bay was caught on video. The video sent to us by Adam Songy, shows what appears to be oil spewing out of two wellheads and into the water.

As offshore drilling moves into deeper waters, new engineering techniques are needed to cope with temperatures that can hit 150 degrees Celsius, with crushing pressures that can exceed 25,000 pounds ...