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 ...

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 ...

Wild Well Control has stationed a second emergency subsea capping stack for stopping or diverting deep-water oil well blowouts at its facility near the Kim Heng Quayside near Loyang in Singapore. The ...

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 ...

HWCG focuses on system integration so its capping stack systems are compatible with flow and capture systems, and it supports response readiness through training, exercises, workshops, and simulations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...

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.

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.