Learn how Control of Well Insurance covers costs of blowouts, helps restore operations, and protects against ecological damage in oil and gas industries.

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 ...

Series of oil and gas leakages, spillages, wellhead blowouts in different oil bearing communities of Rivers State, have sparked fear and tension among residents of the concerned places. The latest is ...

Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Clean Water Act (CWA) and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in civil and criminal fines and penalties for its conduct in relation to ...

One of the worst environmental catastrophes in American history occurred on April 20, 2010, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded. Operating in the Macondo Prospect, a deep-sea oil reservoir ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve already asked whether President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium is a smart policy, given the fact that it won’t do much unless we attack oil demand at the source. But I still thought that a ...