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 ...

Rockman has suggested that the strength of the pipes (to withstand the underwater pressure) might have made it impossible for the shear rams in the blowout preventer to slam shut and cut off the ...

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

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

Eleven people were killed and 17 people were injured in an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on 20 April ... for the safety valve known as the blowout preventer. The report says six leaks ...

Last year it also weakened the “Blowout Preventer Systems and Well Control Rule,” which was created to prevent uncontrollable oil spills like Deepwater Horizon. That rollback faced a court challenge ...

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 ...

Photochemical fate of the constituents of COREXIT, the chemical dispersant applied as part of the response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Direct and indirect photolysis rates COREXIT components ...

It's near impossible to forget that back in April of 2010, the Deepwater Horizon burst into flames ... system that cuts off oil in the event of a blowout, but even with that in place, Shell's ...