In late April an explosive blowout of the well had turned the Deepwater Horizon, one of the world's most advanced drill rigs, into a pile of charred and twisted metal at the bottom of the sea.

Blind shear rams can be rendered powerless by the failure of a single part, a point underscored in a confidential report that scrutinized the reliability of the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout ...

We have all been reading about the blowout that led to huge fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Now there is news that there is a huge oil spill coming ...

Deepwater Horizon — an ultra-deepwater drilling platform that BP leased from the drilling company Transocean — was completing a new well in the 1,600-m-deep Mississippi Canyon area when a ...

The blowout preventer is what should have saved Deepwater Horizon. When it exploded, a couple of crew members tried to engage the blowout preventer, which had failed to do so automatically.

Dr. Jason Jolliff used surface oil estimates following the Deepwater Horizon blowout to forecast where oil would first hit shorelines 96 hours later, on May 14,2010. "If you're going to do ...

Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 American biographical ... It's an intense thriller that shows how a blowout in the newly drilled well threatened to destroy the rig and everyone on it.

Four years before the pressure blowout that destroyed Deepwater Horizon, the rig had completed another mission for BP.

The other, called “top kill,” involved pumping drilling mud and other material into the Deepwater Horizon rig’s blowout preventer. With the federal government’s approval, BP employed the ...

In April 2010, there is no oil exploration operation in the Gulf of Mexico to compare with the Deepwater Horizon oil ... that would create a massive blowout and explosion that threatens them ...