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 ...

As a massive oil leak spit thousands of gallons more crude into the Gulf of Mexico, a big box that BP hoped would be its savior sat idle hundreds of feet away, encased in ice crystals. The company's ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO -- It's never been tried before, but crews hope to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to cut off most of the hundreds of thousands ...

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 — ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SEATTLE — Boeing this week instructed a small team of top machinists at its Auburn, Wash., parts plant to begin building new, high-strength containment boxes ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO-- It's never been tried before, but crews hope to lower a 100-ton concrete-and-steel box a mile under the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday to cut off most of the hundreds of thousands ...