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 ...

As oil and gas fields in shallower waters are depleted and operators seek to access deeper reserves, underwater ... the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photochemical fate of the constituents of COREXIT, the chemical dispersant applied as part of the response to the BP Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Direct and indirect photolysis rates COREXIT components ...