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 ...

A smaller, more agile capping stack has been made available by the Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC), developed for deep-water Gulf of Mexico operators in areas where well heads and riser systems ...

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 ...

Lagos — The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, has inaugurated a bi-Technical Committee made up of NOSDRA officials and those from Marine Platform Ltd. for the application 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.

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 ...

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.