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 ...

As cleanup crews struggled Friday to cope with the massive oil slick from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico, dozens of engineers and technicians ensconced in a Houston office building were still ...

The National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC) intends to purchase annular blowout preventer from qualified and interested tenderers through two-stage public tender( semi-pressed). Minimum acceptable ...

Blowouts are easily the most dangerous and destructive potential disasters in the world of oil drilling. Not only can they lead to serious injury and even death, but they can also cause massive, ...

On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform ...

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Norwegian state operator Statoil faces a serious rap from the country’s Petroleum Safety Authority (PSA) following a well-control incident at the Troll field last year that carried similarities to the ...

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