Seven long days after the explosion, operators of the underwater robots managed ... scrutinized the reliability of the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer. The report, completed in 2000 ...

Six years before Deepwater Horizon exploded in April ... Image via gcaptain The BP engineers tried to use underwater robots to trigger the blowout preventer, but a crucial valve was stuck and ...

Based on true events, Deepwater Horizon tells the heroic struggle of oil rig workers during the worst oil spill in U.S.

If oil or gas, which is under high pressure underground, accidentally goes up the well bore and pipe, the blowout preventer is supposed to cut off the flow so it doesn’t reach the platform. In the ...

a mile underwater on the seafloor, BP's Macondo well was spewing something like an Exxon Valdez every four days. In late April an explosive blowout of the well had turned the Deepwater Horizon ...

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 ...

The other, called “top kill,” involved pumping drilling mud and other material into the Deepwater Horizon rig’s blowout preventer. With the federal government’s approval, BP employed the ...

The failure of a blowout preventer contributed to the deadly disaster at the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of ...

Jason Jolliff used surface oil estimates following the Deepwater Horizon blowout to forecast where ... offshore oil into coastal currents. The underwater Mississippi Canyon helped funnel oil ...

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 ...