PORT FOURCHON, La. -- The company BP PLC hired to build concrete and steel containment boxes says the first one will be completed within 48 hours. Spokesman John Curry said today that BP hopes to have ...

A 20-foot pleasure boat that invaded the strict perimeter Thursday and pulled up right in the middle of the oil spill near the boat drilling the relief well was told to leave the area by a Coast Guard ...

A BP spokesman says a second, smaller oil containment box known as a "top hat" is being brought to the site of a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Spokesman Bill Salvin tells The Associated Press ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) – Workers gathered to begin lowering a giant concrete-and-steel box over the blown-out oil well at the bottom of the sea Thursday in a risky and untested bid to capture most ...

BP may try again Monday to lower a containment box over the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico after the first attempt failed Saturday. There was little new activity at the spill site Sunday. The ...

A novel but risky attempt to use a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box to cover a deepwater oil well gushing toxic crude into the Gulf of Mexico was aborted Saturday after ice crystals encased it, an ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — Icelike crystals encrusting a 100-ton steel-and-concrete box meant to contain oil gushing from a broken well deep in the Gulf of Mexico forced ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A day after icy slush clogged the massive box they hoped would contain an out-of-control oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials on Sunday said they might try again — ...

A 12-man crew aboard a supply boat was carrying the precious cargo. The 280-foot Joe Griffin, owned by Edison Chouest Offshore, also was involved in helping fight the fire that resulted from the oil ...

A boat carrying a 100-ton concrete-and-steel contraption designed to siphon off the oil fouling the Gulf of Mexico arrived Thursday at the spot in the sea where a blown-out well is spewing hundreds of ...