Seven long days after the explosion, operators of the underwater robots managed ... scrutinized the reliability of the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer. The report, completed in 2000 ...

Underwater robots have been at the scenes of several extreme accidents and attacks on offshore infrastructure in recent years ...

Six years before Deepwater Horizon exploded in April ... Image via gcaptain The BP engineers tried to use underwater robots to trigger the blowout preventer, but a crucial valve was stuck and ...

Rockman has suggested that the strength of the pipes (to withstand the underwater pressure) might have made it impossible for the shear rams in the blowout preventer to slam shut and cut off the ...

WASHINGTON— Ten environmental groups sued the Trump administration today to challenge rollbacks of the 2016 Well Control and Blowout Preventer Rule, a safety regulation meant to prevent another ...

Jason Jolliff used surface oil estimates following the Deepwater Horizon blowout to forecast where ... offshore oil into coastal currents. The underwater Mississippi Canyon helped funnel oil ...

a mile underwater on the seafloor, BP's Macondo well was spewing something like an Exxon Valdez every four days. In late April an explosive blowout of the well had turned the Deepwater Horizon ...