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 ...

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 ...

With all the finger pointing and blame going around and the Gulf, there's only one thing that can be definitively blamed: the blowout preventer (BOP) on the Deepwater Horizon. The blowout preventer in ...

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, ...

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 ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the subsea well access and blowout preventer system market and it is poised to grow by USD 2.85 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR ...

Crews successfully removed the failed blowout preventer from BP’s gulf well Friday, an important step toward killing the well for good, and a hopeful development for federal investigators who view the ...

The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil leak failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday in a report that appears ...

NEW ORLEANS — BP crews worked Saturday to slowly raise the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, careful not to damage or drop a key piece of evidence ...

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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 ...