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 ...

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 ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...

Shear rams are components in a blowout preventer that cut, or shear, through drill pipe and form a seal against well pressure. Blowout preventers sit at the wellhead of exploratory wells and are ...

May 28 (Reuters) - BP Plc <BP.L> is mid-stride in a key procedure known as "top kill" to choke off a blown-out oil well a mile (1.6 km) beneath the Gulf of Mexico. BP'S chief executive on Friday noted ...

Problems were detected in two blowout preventers on deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico last week, causing companies to temporarily cap the wells, officials with the companies involved confirmed to ...

Lloyd’s Register Group has announced it is developing new software to monitor the performance of blow-out preventers in the wake of last year’s Macondo disaster. The London-based risk management ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior seeks to strengthen blowout preventer regulations that were relaxed in 2019 under the Trump administration, the agency announced Monday. After the Deepwater Horizon ...

NEW ORLEANS - The blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico was removed from the BP well Friday afternoon. The process of raising it to the surface was to be ...

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The oil and gas industry needs to radically redesign the blowout preventers that are meant to be a last line of defense against runaway wells or else risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

Testing of Shell’s proposed Arctic-ready capping stack system was supervised this week by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) in Puget Sound, BSEE Director Brian Salerno ...