If this flow of hydrocarbons is not stopped in time, the hydrocarbons can ignite into a deadly firestorm called a blowout. Because of the immense cost and danger associated with oil well blowouts ...

Last year, Transocean commissioned a “strictly confidential” study of the reliability of blowout preventers used by deepwater rigs. Using the world’s most authoritative database of oil rig ...

Operator Premier Oil has suspended operations on the 4/20-1 (Isobel Deep) well, following a problem detected on the drilling rig blowout preventer, BOP, according to partner Falkland Oil and Gas ...

saying it dismisses the chance of another disastrous blowout like the… Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico ...