Upstreamonline.com, an oil and gas industry trade publication, is reporting today that Transocean is looking into problems with a blowout preventer involving its drillship Discoverer Seven Seas off ...

Fifteen years after Deepwater Horizon, some scientists and environmentalists worry the industry's new technology could bring ...

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 ...

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 ...

A recommended overhaul of the blowout preventer at the center of the investigation into the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster was not performed, even though other routine maintenance was done, a federal ...

The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team concludes BP, Transocean and Halliburton violated federal safety regulations and compensated employees based on how quickly – not how safely – they could ...

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, ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday made public its rollback of a major offshore-drilling safety regulation, significantly weakening an Obama-era rule that was put in place after the ...

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 ...

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