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HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BOP Technologies, a Houston-based innovator for oil and gas blowout preventers (BOP) and well intervention systems, is announcing a new approach to allow a BOP to work even ...

WASHINGTON • Lawmakers eager to prevent another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and prove to voters that they're responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — are insisting on new standards for ...

McKay said BP officials are still working to activate a "blowout preventer" mechanism meant to seal off the geyser of oil. "And as you can imagine, this is like doing open-heart surgery at 5,000 feet, ...