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 is proposing reforms to its offshore well control rule covering drilling operations on the outer continental shelf in hopes of better protecting against the kind of blowout ...

Upstreamonline.com, an oil and gas industry trade publication, is reporting today that Transocean is looking into problems with a blowout preventer involving its drillship Discoverer Seven Seas off ...

This investigation breaks down exactly what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and how the Macondo well blew out. We examine the pressure tests, the cement job, and the blowout preventer ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration Thursday ordered BP to remove the failed blowout preventer from its Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico and preserve it as likely evidence in civil and ...

The disastrous 2010 blowout on the oil rig Deepwater Horizon killed 11 men. Judging from the Louisiana-filmed “Deepwater Horizon,” a harrowing re-creation of the accident complete with fires, ...

The BP spill that dumped 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico could have been avoided if the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer had worked. A firm selected to examine what went wrong ...

Federal Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters in Malibu today that the Obama Administration will announce a new ban on offshore oil drilling in the next few days. A federal appeals court ...

A mobile offshore drilling unit holds position directly over the damaged Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer in 2010, as part of efforts to contain the oil spill. A controversial U.S. Dept. of the ...