Tanks holding oil in Pithole, Pa., in 1868. Samuel Van Syckel built his first pipeline over just five weeks in 1865. At 2 inches in diameter, it was tiny by modern standards — but it was an ...

Last updated 6:38 p.m. EDT. BP has freed a diamond-tipped saw that had become stuck underwater in the latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil spill, and the company is still working on a way to ...

Updated at 4:50 pm ET --BP has reportedly freed the saw that got stuck in the pipe its engineers were remotely trying to saw through.The pipe, called the riser, is the main pipe leading from the well.

The risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil spill hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-edged saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico ...

BP has freed a diamond-tipped saw that had become stuck underwater in the latest attempt to contain the Gulf oil spill, and the company is still working on a way to slice through the pipe.

Obama seeks to cut oil tax breaks; BP CEO apologizes. June 2, 2010— -- As oil drifts closer to the Florida coast, BP and the federal government said today that their seventh attempt to ...

BP's latest effort to stem the oil spewing from a ruptured well 1.6km deep in the Gulf of Mexico hit a setback when a saw snagged while cutting a riser pipe, officials said on Wednesday.

Saw snags on pipe in risky oil rescue BP's efforts to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill have hit another snag, with a saw jamming as it tried to cut through the damaged pipeline.

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- BP Plc successfully cut the riser pipe at the ruptured well in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, but the diamond wire blade got stuck during the second cut on Wednesday ...