Updated 3:18 p.m. ET. BP engineers were back to the slow work of trying to choke the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher with an untested cap after replacing a leaky pipe Thursday, the latest delay in the ...

That cap had been diverting 15,000 barrels of oil a day to a ship on the surface. The new cap should eventually enable BP to contain all of the oil from the well, estimated at up to 60,000 barrels ...

BP Cuts Pipe, Plans To Lower Cap Over Leak NPR's Richard Harris updates Michele Norris on BP's effort to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Thursday, ...

Many communities in Canada still have their water supplied through asbestos cement pipes and Australia has 25,000 miles (40,000km) of water mains pipes made from the material.