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 ...

State-owned Oil India Limited (OIL) has successfully capped a well on GeoEnpro Petroleum’s (GEPL) Kharsang oilfield in ...

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 ...

Oil India Limited (OIL) has finalised the capping of oil well KSG 76 at the Kharsang oilfield in the Indian state of ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal probe has found that a trapped piece of drill pipe prevented a blowout preventer from properly sealing to stop last year's massive Gulf oil spill. A report released ...

This article was written by John Wonderlich, the Sunlight Foundation's Policy Director. Just as there is now a new cap being fitted over the leaking oil well, patching a mechanical failure, we are ...

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 ...

The Biden administration is proposing to strengthen a set of rules that governs safety requirements for blowout preventers and failures at offshore oil and gas rigs in federal waters. Those rules were ...

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 ...