Hours after a presidential commission raised new questions about the safety of the cement mixture intended to temporarily seal BP's Macondo exploration well, oil field service giant Halliburton said ...

* If new system works, BP says no oil will leak * Relief well on track to meet blown-out well by end-July (Adds quotes from briefing, professor) By Kristen Hays HOUSTON, July 13 (Reuters) - BP Plc <BP ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc expected to start testing its ruptured Gulf of Mexico well by midday on Tuesday to see how it would handle a "static kill" intended to help plug the leak for good, the top U ...

Officials say that more time is needed before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude. Specialized vessels operate in the area of the Deepwater Horizon disaster Tuesday on the Gulf of Mexico.

BP has started testing a cap designed to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in almost three months. Kent Wells, a senior vice president in the company, said at a Wednesday ...