Every oil well drilled must have its own name. There are wells named after planets and chili peppers as well as ones named Ron Burgundy and Dean Wormer.

For the first time since April, the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico stopped -- at least temporarily -- Thursday after BP sealed a containment cap during the start of pressure tests on the ...

The 18-month gusher total ranges from 8 million to 9.4 million barrels of oil -- 336 million to 395 million gallons. A t first, the gusher was seen as a boon, a windfall of black gold. But as the well ...

Oil men believe that when drilled deeper the well will be good for 2,500 barrels of oil a day. WANTS $10,000 HEART EASE. Miss Schneider Thinks Turner Owes Her About That Much in Damages.

NEW ORLEANS — Robotic submarines working a mile underwater removed a leaking cap from the gushing Gulf oil well Saturday, starting a painful trade-off: Millions more gallons of crude will flow ...

That’s where they found the world’s biggest oil well.” The gusher produced a million barrels of oil in 90 days.

There are currently two vessels siphoning oil from the gushing undersea well: the Discovery Enterprise, which captures an estimated 15,000 barrels of oil a day, and the Q-4000, which captures ...

HOUSTON -- As engineers bore deeper into the seafloor toward the source of the oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, BP PLC is growing more confident that the relief well it expects to ...

After 87 days of unsuccessful attempts to plug the Gulf oil gusher, BP may have finally found a solution. A cap mounted on the Deepwater Horizon site's leaky well earlier this week has stopped all ...

After a delay caused by fumes and a risk of fire, a crew in the Gulf of Mexico began lowering a 100-ton box over the blown-out oil well on the seafloor, hours after federal officials suspended new ...

In the oil-rich Williston Basin, a Shell Oil Co. wildcat crew last week brought in a well near Baker, Mont. that gushed oil at the rate of 4,253 barrels a day. It was the richest well yet drilled ...