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• Tips for a healthy well

  March 12, 2012 3:02 PM

  Those who use well water should take some time to have their well water tested. The cost in El Paso County is $20. There are about 14,500 private wells in El Paso County that serve about 39,000 people. Residents with private wells in El Paso County may get... more »

• BP to remove cap, replace blowout preventer

  August 27, 2010 12:55 PM

  The federal government said it will start work Monday to remove the temporary cap that stopped oil from gushing out of BP's blown-out Gulf well so that engineers can raise a key piece of equipment from the seabed. Thad Allen, the government's point man for the spill response, told... more »

• Testing almost finished on BP top kill

  August 13, 2010 8:11 AM

  Sometime later today, officials are expected to deliver the verdict on whether BP's problem oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is permanently plugged. Test results will determine if the BP gusher has been sealed well enough to declare the operation complete. National Incident Commander Thad Allen says the... more »

• Tomorrow could hold answer for BP repairs

  August 12, 2010 10:06 PM

  We could know by tomorrow whether BP's broken oil well has been plugged for good. Officials will decide whether further work to seal the well is needed. If so, crews will go ahead with drilling relief wells to allow for a so-called bottom kill. more »

• Weather a worry for drilling effort

  August 10, 2010 11:56 AM

  As crews try to finish up the work that they hope will seal a blown-out oil well for good, they're keeping an eye on the weather in the Gulf of Mexico. Forecasters say a cluster of thunderstorms in the eastern Gulf could pass near the oil spill site. The... more »

• Cement plug has hardened; relief well to be completed

  August 9, 2010 8:41 AM

  BP may have the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico permanently sealed this week. Engineers plan to intersect the damaged well with a relief well that they're still drilling - 20 to 30 feet at a time. Then they'll be able to pump mud and cement into... more »

• BP to begin forcing cement down well

  August 5, 2010 8:20 AM

  BP officials say they plan to begin forcing cement down the blown-out Gulf oil well today. The announcement came last night shortly after their plan was approved by the federal official in charge of the oil spill. The company plans to shove cement down from pipes attached to ships... more »

• New BP chief: Priority is plugging well for good

  July 27, 2010 9:49 AM

  The newly named CEO of BP says his top priority is sealing its blown oil well for good and cleaning and restoring the Gulf of Mexico. Bob Dudley said he does not expect any more oil to gush into the Gulf as BP moves to permanently plug the well... more »

• EPA takes new look at gas drilling, water issues

  July 21, 2010 11:59 AM

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing this week for a third round of hearings - this time in Canonsburg, Pa. - on the controversial natural gas drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking." A wealth of natural gas is locked into the Marcellus Shale deep beneath Pennsylvania, New... more »

• Feds ask court to reinstate drilling moratorium

  July 7, 2010 1:16 PM

  Federal authorities have asked an appeals court to reinstate a moratorium on deepwater drilling declared after BP's oil well blew out in the Gulf of Mexico. In a filing late Tuesday in the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, the government challenged a federal judge's finding the Interior Department... more »

• President Obama defends oil well handling

  June 8, 2010 12:51 PM

  President Barack Obama is taking issue with those who say he hasn't been involved enough with the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In an interview recorded yesterday for NBC's "Today" show, Obama says he has understood "from Day 1" that "it was going to be a major... more »

• Gulf tube siphoning 20 percent of leaked oil

  May 17, 2010 8:18 AM

  Reporting its first success in containing the massive Gulf oil leak nearly a month after it started, BP on Sunday said oil and natural gas were flowing via a mile-long pipe to a ship at the surface. Yet even as the company reported the success, scientists warned oil that... more »

• BP hopes tube will siphon oil to tanker

  May 14, 2010 9:32 AM

  BP's latest plan to stanch the gushing oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico includes robots, a small tube and a stopper. If all goes well, a stopper will be put in place today to fill the gap between a six-inch tube and the jagged, 21-inch pipe to keep... more »

• Cavern could collapse, taking part of N.M. city

  November 10, 2009 11:13 AM

  The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad. "US 285 south subject to sinkhole 1,000 feet ahead," motorists are warned. But there is little other evidence that in southeastern New Mexico's oil country, a giant cavern sits beneath the... more »

• Girl, 4, reunited with dog rescued from well

  October 20, 2009 1:03 PM

  In the quiet little town of Olar, S.C. (population: 250), it's the feel-good story of the year: Olivia Hartzog, age 4, was reunited with her beloved pet Mollie after the poor pooch was trapped overnight 33 feet down an abandoned well on the family property. Olivia hugged her pet... more »

• BP makes huge oil discovery in Gulf of Mexico

  September 3, 2009 4:11 PM

  BP announced this week that it made a "giant" oil discovery in the western Gulf of Mexico, finding multiple reservoirs of oil from a single, deep-sea drilling rig. The drilling rig went down a stunning 35,000 feet (Pikes Peak: 14,000 feet) in search of the oil. Further testing will be... more »