Government and industry reports have raised questions about the reliability of blowout preventers for more than a decade. A 2003 report by Transocean, the owner of the destroyed rig, said ...

NEW ORLEANS — A dispute between the owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of ... has agreed to flush the control pods on the blowout preventer to keep the device from corroding before ...

WASHINGTON -- A key safety device known as the blowout preventer used in the BP oil rig in the Gulf had a hydraulic leak and other problems that likely prevented it from working as designed ...

NEW ORLEANS – The owner of the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico ... Last week, the board demanded that the testing of the failed blowout preventer stop until Transocean and Cameron ...

“What we had learned when I worked as a drill rig laborer was swoosh, boom, run,” Bea said ... have been focusing on the so-called blowout preventer. Federal regulators told The Associated ...

On Wednesday, BP sued Cameron, the maker of the blowout preventer that failed, and in a separate case cited faults by Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that caught fire and sank.

In 2009, Transocean hired DNV to study the reliability of subsea blowout preventers. That same year, DNV named a Transocean vice president, N. Pharr Smith, to be chairman of DNV's rig owners ...

Representative Bart Stupak, head of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said the rig’s underwater blowout preventer had a leak in its hydraulic system and the device was not ...

not for operation in interface with the rig as would have occurred that night. A spokeswoman for Cameron International, the Houston-based manufacturer of the blowout preventer, declined to comment.

Testing of the blowout preventer on the Transocean Ltd. rig that exploded on April 20 and unleashed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could begin as soon as next week, a Justice Department official ...