blowout preventer, Tag

Yesterday, the U.S. government announced that the epic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by a faulty underwater blowout preventer and the subsequent failure of the attached cutting device’s ability to shear...

Please move discussion to new thread http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6539. It may be necessary to copy over some old comments, if an important discussion was started that could not be continued. Previous thread introduction...

This is a repeat of the earlier post, but see that updates have been added throughout the day both on top and under the fold--we kept the same post/information in one place since we are running through three comment threads...

This is a repeat of earlier threads, but see that updates have been added throughout the day both on top and under the fold--we kept the same post/information in one place since we are running through three comment threads...

New Thread--redirect to http://theoildrum.com/node/6551 This is a repeat of the earlier post, because of the large number of comments. Note Wednesday afternoon updates at the bottom of the post! There has been a lot of...

This is a repeat of the earlier post, because of the large number of comments. There has been a lot of activity at the bottom of the Gulf today, not all of it immediately successful, but all working toward the current aim...

This is a repeat of the earlier post, because of the large number of comments. There has been a lot of activity at the bottom of the Gulf today, not all of it immediately successful, but all working toward the current aim...

There has been a lot of activity at the bottom of the Gulf today, not all of it immediately successful, but all working toward the current aim of being able to field the Lower Marine Riser package...

There has been a lot of activity at the bottom of the Gulf today, not all of it immediately successful, but all working toward the current aim of being able to field the Lower Marine Riser package...

After its containment cap filled with ice-like crystals and failed to stop the flow of oil, BP has been scrambling to come up with new solutions to the Deepwater Horizon leak...

I thought that it might be useful to explain where and how at least part of the problem with the Transocean Deepwater Horizon fire and sinking spreading oil across the Gulf of Mexico might have started...

I thought that it might be useful to explain where and how at least part of the problem with the Transocean Deepwater Horizon fire and sinking spreading oil across the Gulf of Mexico might have started...

I am still travelling in the UK, and thus have not been able to follow, in any detail, the environmental disaster that is unfolding along the Louisiana coast, as the oil from the Transocean Deepwater Horizon fire and sinking...

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 from the underground pipe where...

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 from the underground pipe where...