referring to the top half of the blowout preventer. But after a few moments, as oil continued to flow, it became clear that this, too, had failed. Soon after, the Deepwater Horizon sank.

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 ...

Eleven people were killed and 17 people were injured in an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon on 20 April. An estimated 4.9m barrels of oil leaked ... known as the blowout preventer.

Six years before Deepwater Horizon ... to engage the blowout preventer, which had failed to do so automatically. The four-story containment dome that failed to stop the BP oil spill.

Flames also shot from another rig, the Q4000,which was burning oil and gas collected from a separate line attached to the busted blowout preventer ... The Deepwater Horizon spill had become ...

Federal investigators determined that a defective blowout preventer was one of the causes. “Ignoring the lessons of Deepwater Horizon will mean more catastrophic oil spills,” Monsell said. “A spill in ...