It did not perform 72 of them, mostly for a simple reason: at the time, the Deepwater Horizon was operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and the blowout preventer was on the seafloor and therefore ...

The blowout preventer is what should have saved Deepwater Horizon. When it exploded, a couple of crew members tried to engage the blowout preventer, which had failed to do so automatically.

The Deepwater Horizon began its ill-fated effort in ... A long string generally has two barriers between the oil and the blowout preventer on the seafloor: a cement plug at the bottom of the ...

The committee will evaluate possible causes for the failure of the blowout preventer once key data are made available. Data on maintenance, testing, operating procedures, and reliability of alarms and ...

WASHINGTON— Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another ...

WASHINGTON— Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another ...

Dr. Jason Jolliff used surface oil estimates following the Deepwater Horizon blowout to forecast where oil would first hit shorelines 96 hours later, on May 14,2010. "If you're going to do ...

Almost a decade and a half after the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, offshore oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has long since surpassed pre-disaster levels. The hundreds of fish species ...

Four years before the pressure blowout that destroyed Deepwater Horizon, the rig had completed another mission for BP.