Crews successfully removed the failed blowout preventer from BP’s gulf well Friday, an important step toward killing the well for good, and a hopeful development for federal investigators who view ...

Business; Blowout preventer that failed to stop gulf oil spill had piece of broken pipe inside. Updated: ; Mar. 23, 2011, 7:03 p.m. | Published: ; Mar. 23, 2011, 6:03 ...

WASHINGTON - The hydraulic system that powered the blowout preventer at BP's failed Macondo well may never have had the capacity to stop last year's Gulf of Mexico spill or any other such ...

NEW ORLEANS • Crews successfully removed the failed blowout preventer from BP's gulf well Friday, an important step toward killing the well for good, and a hopeful development for federal ...

It was the failure of the blowout preventer during the 2010 BP Macondo project ... "We are approaching the point where the equipment is too heavy to be supported by the wellhead." ...

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

Here's a quick recap of what went wrong at the wellhead, and what could go wrong in the future: 1. ... The five-story-high contraption known as a blowout preventer, or BOP, ...

Thirty-one years ago, a drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, and the wellhead began spewing thousands of barrels of crude each day into the sea. It took 10 months to cap the well, and ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - 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 ...

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

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — BP crews faced delays Saturday as they slowly raised the 300-ton blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, taking care not to damage ...

A BP spokesman said in an e-mail to The Associated Press that the 50-foot, 300-ton device was detached from the wellhead at 1:20 p.m CDT. The device was slowly being lifted to the surface and ...