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Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake Energy is reporting that workers have successfully stemmed the flow of fluids from a well that blew out April 19. The blowout resulted in thousands of gallons of ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP says its engineers have begun pumping heavy drilling mud into the blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well in hopes of choking it for good. BP spokesman John Barnes says crews launched ...

With the newly installed cap keeping oil out of the Gulf, this weekend offered a chance for the oil company and government to gloat over their shared success -- the first real victory in fighting the ...

The latest attempt by Southern California Gas Co. to kill its leaking well above Porter Ranch amounts to a deep shot in the dark. All the repair crew has to do is hit a 7-inch target at the bottom of ...

This story was updated Wednesday afternoon to reflect the company’s announcement that it capped the leak. COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Columbiana County gas well belched unknown quantities of methane gas into ...

The amount of methane leaking from the broken Southern California Gas Co. well above Porter Ranch has been steadily decreasing, a new state air sampling shows. Levels are now 60 percent below a peak ...