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The final set of failures on April 20 involved the Deepwater Horizon’s blowout preventer (BOP), a large and complex device on the sea floor that was connected to the rig nearly a mile above on the sea surface.
The blowout preventer (BOP) that was intended to shut off the flow of high-pressure oil and gas from the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico during the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on April 20, 2010, failed to seal the well because drill.
The blowout preventer (BOP) was the last failure before the explosion. The BOP is a complex arrangement of subsea components, designed with multiple functions to shut in a well.
The explosion on the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig drilling platform on April 20, 2010, which took eleven lives and spread an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has focused attention on why and how the Cameron blowout-preventer at BP’s Macondo project failed. This article explains how the high pressure at great ocean depths impacts drilling and ...
Remote imaging of the failed blowout preventer, stress testing various containment devices as well as other high-tech tasks helped contain the Deepwater Horizon disaster
Macondo Well-Deepwater Horizon Blowout examines the causes of the blowout and provides a series of recommendations, for both the oil and gas industry and government regulators, intended to reduce the likelihood and impact of any future losses of well control during offshore drilling. According to this report, companies involved in offshore ...
Eight catastrophic failures led to the explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and leading to one of the biggest oil leaks in...