BP began “injectivity testing” on its Macondo well Tuesday afternoon, a crucial precursor to the “static kill” operation on track for later in the day. The static kill is a delicate process which will ...

“It went exactly as we would have expected,” he said. “We got exactly the information we were looking for.” BP engineers are now monitoring pressure in the well as they slowly push heavy mud into the ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 2-- BP PLC planned an Aug. 2 injectivity test on the blowout Macondo well in 5,000 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico to determine if a planned static kill procedure is likely to work, ...

HOUSTON, Aug. 3-- BP PLC repaired a small hydraulic leak in the capping stack hydraulic control system during its final preparations for the injectivity test, which was still expected to take place ...

New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN)-- A crucial test -- meant to determine whether an effort to seal the ruptured BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could proceed -- has been delayed because of a small leak, ...

its blown-out Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico due to a small hydraulic leak found in the capping stack hydraulic control system. The test was expected to start Monday, ahead of plans to start a ...

DALLAS (Reuters) - BP Plc said on Monday that a crucial test ahead of its planned "static kill" operation to inject drilling mud into its blown-out Gulf of Mexico oil well will be delayed and the kill ...

Energy giant BP said Monday that a key test planned ahead of the "static kill" procedure -- the first of two steps intended to seal the ruptured Gulf of Mexico well for good -- will be postponed ...

Bahar Energy Operating Company Limited (BEOC), wholly owned subsidiary of the US Greenfields Petroleum Corporation, has initiated an extended waterflood injectivity test in Azerbaijan’s Gum Deniz oil ...