The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement - suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster - has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an ...

"Cement is cheap, and it fixes a lot of problems, but it's not a good place to cut corners," Beck said. Many oil and gas companies will scrimp, though, if they don't think they need all the ...

BP on Thursday delivered what should be a knock-out punch to its damaged Macondo well, filling it with cement and all but guaranteeing oil will never leak from it again. The final step of the ...

While the chain of failures on Deepwater Horizon is under investigation, rig owner Transocean has singled out cement work as one likely fundamental cause of the blowout. Even before Transocean pointed ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement — suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster — has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an Associated ...

WASHINGTON — Halliburton, whose failed cement job on the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico was identified as a contributing factor to the deadly blowout by a presidential investigative panel on Thursday, ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Halliburton, the oil field services giant that provided the cement for BP’s Macondo ...

Mon, 24 May 2010 10:29:42 GMT — (AP) -- The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement " suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico disaster" has failed dozens of times in ...