Ed Markey, D-Mass., citing renewed questions about blowout preventers - devices installed during drilling as a last line of defense against loss of well control. Bromwich stressed that the bureau ...

Last week's blowout on a natural gas rig off the Louisiana coast could shift regulators' focus to shallow-water drilling and make an overhaul of safety equipment regulations more likely.

Blowouts are very expensive to stop and often demand teams of specially skilled workers working for days or even weeks to cap ...

With thousands of unplugged wells and platforms overdue for decommission, environmental groups seek ways to limit offshore ...

Chevron continues to clean up toxic chemicals spewed into the air, soil and water after an oil and gas well in Weld County ...

The Obama administration on Monday cited control systems on subsea blowout preventers as one reason for its offshore drilling moratorium. But more than a year before the BP oil spill, authorities ...

Design problems with a blowout prevention system contributed to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster, and the same equipment is still commonly used in drilling four years after the Gulf of ...

A drilling rig continued burning out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, raising questions about safety improvements that were supposed to follow the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster.

It happened one year ago this month: the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, the KHOU 11 News I-Team looks at what no one wants to think about: What if it happened again?

Few technical devices in oil and gas drilling may be as famous — or infamous — as the “blowout preventer.” As the name suggests, a blowout preventer is designed to seal off a well in an ...

Most commonly, when a well is lost to a blowout, the drilling package will have collapsed around the well, making proper assessment of the situation difficult.

HOUSTON — A year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a sharper focus on offshore safety is boosting demand for specialized equipment and services centered in Texas, especially Houston, even as ...