General Electric is expanding its focus on offshore drilling rig safety with a new business that will take over handling of massive underwater equipment designed to prevent well blowouts and oil ...

These steel monsters known as blowout preventers or BOPs -- sometimes as big as a double-decker bus and weighing up to 640,000 pounds -- guard the mouth of wells. They act as the last defense to choke ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A new blowout preventer has been placed atop BP’s problem oil well, a ...

The steel drill pipe on BP's Macondo exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico buckled under extreme pressure and kept the blowout preventer from sealing the well during the April 2010 disaster that sank ...