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 ...

Few technical devices in oil and gas drilling may be as famous — or infamous — as the “blowout preventer.” As the name suggests, a blowout preventer is designed to seal off a well in an emergency so ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The drilling rig that blew was floating in the deep seas, about 5,000 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) Cameron International, the maker of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer that failed to stop last year's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has agreed to pay $250 million to ...

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 ...