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 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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the ongoing hearing looking into the Deepwater Horizon oil rig ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...

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 ...

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, ...

NEW ORLEANS — A dispute between the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico and the federal government over how a key piece of evidence is being handled has been resolved. A lawyer for ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout ...

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, ...

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 ...

* Tests found problems with relief well blowout preventers * Problems fixed, equipment passes subsequent tests By Kristen Hays and Anna Driver HOUSTON, July 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken ...