After the accident, BP CEO Tony Hayward said of blowout preventers in general: "It's unprecedented for it to fail." Yet the AP review turned up instances where preventer seals have failed outright, ...

The BP spill that dumped 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could have been avoided if the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer had worked. A firm selected to examine what went wrong ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When things go wrong in an offshore oil and gas drilling project, the blowout preventer is the last line of defense to keep an accident or unexpected event from turning into ...

The oil and gas industry needs to radically redesign the blowout preventers that are meant to be a last line of defense against runaway wells or else risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

In the frantic days and weeks after BP's Macondo well exploded, killing 11 people and sending more than 4 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, blame focused on a piece of equipment to ...

Device that failed to stop oil from spewing into Gulf of Mexico is considered key piece of evidence. NEW ORLEANS — BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf ...

The Biden administration is proposing to strengthen a set of rules that governs safety requirements for blowout preventers and failures at offshore oil and gas rigs in federal waters. Those rules were ...

WASHINGTON • Lawmakers eager to prevent another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and prove to voters that they're responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — are insisting on new standards for ...

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WASHINGTON - The hydraulic system that powered the blowout preventer at BP's failed Macondo well may never have had the capacity to stop last year's Gulf of Mexico spill or any other such emergency, ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memorandum that problems were identified "in recent weeks" with blowout preventers on BP Plc's relief wells, which are seen as the ...

These steel monsters known as blowout preventers or BOPs _ sometimes as big as a double-decker bus and weighing up to 640,000 pounds _ guard the mouth of wells. They act as the last defense to choke ...