It did not perform 72 of them, mostly for a simple reason: at the time, the Deepwater Horizon was operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and the blowout preventer was on the seafloor and therefore ...

The Deepwater Horizon began its ill-fated effort in ... A long string generally has two barriers between the oil and the blowout preventer on the seafloor: a cement plug at the bottom of the ...

We have all been reading about the blowout that led to huge fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Now there is news that there is a huge oil spill coming ...

Over a decade on from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill ... On April 20, 2010, a blowout caused a huge explosion on the offshore drilling rig operated by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.

More recently, the 2010 Deepwater Horizon drillship disaster killed ... These accidents spurred industry to implement better ...

Four years before the pressure blowout that destroyed Deepwater Horizon, the rig had completed another mission for BP. Drilling more than 35,000ft into the seabed, in 6,000ft of ocean, it ...