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 ...

This investigation breaks down exactly what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and how the Macondo well blew out. We examine the pressure tests, the cement job, and the blowout preventer ...

Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...

NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge on Friday granted BP PLC's request to have more tests performed on the critical safety device that failed to stop oil from gushing out of its well during last year's ...

After the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil keeps pouring into the Gulf while engineers search for any way to stop the damaged well. Their strangest attempt is called a “junk shot.” The plan is to pump ...

At Deepwater Horizon, he said, "Something went wrong — and we don't know what." Cameron International, which made the Deepwater Horizon preventers, has acknowledged that these lumbering emergency ...

Problems were detected in two blowout preventers on deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico last week, causing companies to temporarily cap the wells, officials with the companies involved confirmed to ...

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 ...

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Offshore oil and gas exploration and production are inherently hazardous activities requiring the coordinated utilization of many complex systems by hundreds of people working for dozens of companies.