Well control in offshore drilling is the disciplined set of practices and equipment used to keep bottomhole pressure within the safe operating window (between pore pressure and fracture pressure), ...

Contractors have been able to dig their way into an out-of-control oil well through the shallow marshes of southern Plaquemines, cut off a failed piece of the equipment and stop the 82-year-old ...

An 82-year-old oil well drilled before the Allies turned the tide of World War II was spewing an undefined amount of oil, gas and water skyward and into the coastal marshes of southern Plaquemines ...