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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — 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 risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater ...
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 ...
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