WASHINGTON, DC, Dec. 27-- The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board can’t meaningfully examine the Macondo well’s blowout preventer as long as the BOP’s owner, Transocean Ltd., and ...
BP continues to try to remove drill pipe from the Macondo BOP but has so far been unsuccessful. The job, started on Saturday, was supposed to take about three days but, as of Monday afternoon, the UK ...
The panel is believed to have requested an extension for at least two additional hearings — scheduled for December and February — to allow for the prolonged examination of the Macondo BOP. The final ...
The finding that an off-center pipe blocked a blowout preventer from sealing BP's Macondo well tightly enough to stop last year's oil spill may prompt renewed calls for design changes in the devices ...
Choppy seas delayed BP PLC's plans to retrieve the Transocean Ltd.'s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible blowout preventer (BOP) with two pieces of pipe inside it and to install another BOP. Plans ...
The Deepwater Horizon disaster has raised questions about the adequacy of a key piece of safety equipment called a blowout preventer, invented nearly 90 years ago, that remains the oil and gas ...
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 ...
The finding that an off-center pipe blocked a blowout preventer from sealing BP's Macondo well tightly enough to stop last year's oil spill may prompt renewed calls for design changes in the devices ...
NEWORLEANS-- A Gulf of Mexico rig crew tried to activate their blowout preventer's shear rams to cut a pipe and shut off the well before they were forced to flee Tuesday, sources close to the ...
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