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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

View full size (AP Photo/US Coast Guard) This undated photo provided Sunday, April 25 by the US Coast Guard shows the arm of a robot submarine attempting to activate a shutoff device known as a ...

The United States Department of the Interior published the final well control rule on Aug. 22 from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The rule clarifies blowout preventer (BOP) ...

A new report on the April 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil-well blowout concludes that industry and regulators had a “misplaced trust” in the blowout preventer used by the Deepwater Horizon rig. Like many ...

WASHINGTON — As offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere boomed, a 2003 report warned that the industry wasn't taking time to find and fix the problems that commonly plagued blowout ...

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 manufacturer, Cameron ...

Engineers and energy companies are rolling out sensors and software designed to give drillers above the water line and those onshore a better view of what is happening on the sea floor. At this week's ...

According to inventor Karl Payne, last year’s Macondo Well disaster in the Gulf was either the result of a failure of the blow-out-preventer (BOP) or, more probably, a failure of the power source for ...

Petrobras PBR will receive the 2023 OTC Brasil Distinguished Achievement Award for its development of a new well construction/intervention technology that combines a ...