“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. 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...