WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The device designed to cut the oil flow after BP's oil rig exploded was faulty, the head of a congressional committee said on Wednesday as executives in the unfolding Gulf of ...

Bad wiring and a leak in what's supposed to be a "blowout preventer." Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption. Even a dead battery, of all things. New disclosures yesterday revealed ...

WASHINGTON -- Bad wiring and a leak in what's supposed to be a "blowout preventer." Sealing problems that may have allowed a methane eruption. Even a dead battery, of all things. New disclosures ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Biden administration on Tuesday finalized tighter rules for complex devices meant to prevent catastrophic blowouts on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs, reversing some Trump ...

* Fail-safe well-sealing system lacked pressure-rig worker * Blowout preventer was rig's last line of defense By Chris Baltimore HOUSTON, May 28 (Reuters) - A supervisor aboard the doomed Deepwater ...

WASHINGTON – The key last-ditch safety device that failed to prevent the 2010 BP oil spill remains a potentially catastrophic problem today for some offshore drilling, according to a federal safety ...

A House energy panel investigation has found that the blowout preventer that failed to stop a huge oil spill http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010 ...

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 ...

The Interior Department has hired a Norwegian firm to inspect the giant subsea device that failed to prevent the Macondo oil and gas well from exploding on April 20, although the same firm earlier ...

A House investigative subcommittee said Wednesday that the blowout preventer, one of the prime suspects in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, had multiple defects -- everything from leaky hydraulics to a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The key last-ditch safety device that failed to prevent the 2010 BP oil spill remains a potentially catastrophic problem today for some offshore drilling, according to a federal ...