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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 ...

Three unrelated problems may have combined to cause a disastrous oil-well blowout last month in the Gulf of Mexico. The blast killed 11 workers and is releasing massive amounts of oil into the gulf.

The Hercules 265 drilling rig in July 2013 as photographed by Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement inspectors during a fly over of the blowout site. The cloud pictured is natural gas flowing ...

I’ve already asked whether President Obama’s deepwater drilling moratorium is a smart policy, given the fact that it won’t do much unless we attack oil demand at the source. But I still thought that a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government is weighing more safety standards for blowout preventers on oil-drilling rigs, after a probe uncovered a possible design flaw that may have helped to cause ...

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 ...