Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday made public its rollback of a major offshore-drilling safety regulation, significantly weakening an Obama-era rule that was put in place after the ...

This investigation breaks down exactly what happened on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and how the Macondo well blew out. We examine the pressure tests, the cement job, and the blowout preventer ...

The Deepwater Horizon Joint Investigation Team concludes BP, Transocean and Halliburton violated federal safety regulations and compensated employees based on how quickly – not how safely – they could ...

The oil and gas industry needs to radically redesign the blowout preventers that are meant to be a last line of defense against runaway wells or else risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

BP is working to remove its failed blowout preventer from its ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout preventer is key evidence subpoenaed by federal investigators seeking the cause of the ...

A recommended overhaul of the blowout preventer at the center of the investigation into the Deepwater Horizon rig disaster was not performed, even though other routine maintenance was done, a federal ...

For all the attention over undersea oil plumes and seafood toxicity and depressed Gulf residents, it’s easy to forget that this well technically still hasn’t been killed. And now it looks like the ...