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 ...

This story profiles one of the Offshore Technology Conference's Spotlight on New Technology Award winners. In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, increased regulations and heightened ...

It was the mystery that wouldn’t go away, long after the oil stopped gushing: Why did the blowout preventer of the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon fail to prevent the blowout of April 20, 2010, which ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Until the Deepwater Horizon exploded in 2010, killing 11 men and setting off a three-month oil gusher, most of us never heard of a blowout preventer. Now, this 400-ton, four-stories ...

The U.S. government will formally examine potential failure points of blowout preventers following a four-month-long forensic examination by a Norwegian firm into the failed device on BP's Macondo ...

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued revised offshore blowout preventer (BOP) and well control regulations on May 2. The changes remove unnecessary regulatory burdens while ...

Giant metal shears successfully sliced and closed pipe full of runaway crude in the early moments of last April's Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the oil blasted through rubber gaskets around the ...

One of the many lessons learned in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe was the need to know exactly what is going on inside the blowout preventer. Normally, the only visual display of the ...

A new Deepwater Horizon disaster report, released on June 5, found that the blowout preventer (BOP), designed to shut off the flow of oil and gas from the Macondo well, "failed to seal the well ...

A new federal report on the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill blames a blowout preventer on BP’s well for exacerbating the disaster. The draft report from the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) on ...

NEW ORLEANS – The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday in a ...