The blowout preventer that should have stopped the BP oil spill cold failed because of faulty design and a bent piece of pipe, a testing firm hired by the government said Wednesday in a report t ...

“There were conditions in the BOP [blowout preventer] system could have impaired its performance prior to and after the accident,” the report reads. “The investigation team concluded that ...

The finding that an off-center pipe blocked a blowout preventer from sealing BP's Macondo well tightly enough to stop last year's oil spill may prompt renewed calls for design changes in the ...

Engineering Services took par­t a four-month government-led examination of the blowout preventer, or BOP, on behalf of the Chemical Safety Board, an independent agency that also is probing the ...

As of 2022, the global Blowout Preventer (Bop) market was estimated at USD 31138.15 million, and its anticipated to reach USD 39015.41 million in 2028, with a CAGR of 3.83% during the forecast years.

NEW ORLEANS -- Until the Deepwater Horizon exploded in 2010, killing 11 men and setting off a three-month oil gusher, most of us never heard of a blowout preventer. Now, this 400-ton, four-stories ...

The forensic analysis of the blowout preventer, or BOP, conducted under contract to federal investigators by the Norwegian company Det Norske Veritas, showed the initial loss of well control ...

BOP Technologies says its revolutionary blowout preventer delivers five-million pounds of shearing force, enough for industry to manage future, more challenging drilling projects safely.

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 ...

The blowout preventer was removed from the wellhead, which is 5,000 feet deep in the Gulf of Mexico, at 1:20 p.m. Central time, BP spokesman Daren Beaudo said in an e-mail Thursday.

In a Sept. 13, 2010 file photo, the bottom of the blowout preventer stack, from the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill, which is being examined as evidence for federal investigations, is ...

Blowout preventer report could bring new designs Blowout preventer report could prompt design changes By TOM FOWLER and JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, HOUSTON CHRONICLE March 24, 2011 ...