If this flow of hydrocarbons is not stopped in time, the hydrocarbons can ignite into a deadly firestorm called a blowout. Because of the immense cost and danger associated with oil well blowouts ...
A sinkhole around an old oil well is growing at an alarming rate on the Kelton Ranch in West Texas. Radford Grocery #17 was originally drilled as an oil well in the 1950s and later converted to a ...
Last year, Transocean commissioned a “strictly confidential” study of the reliability of blowout preventers used by deepwater rigs. Using the world’s most authoritative database of oil rig ...
saying it dismisses the chance of another disastrous blowout like the… Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico ...
Operator Premier Oil has suspended operations on the 4/20-1 (Isobel Deep) well, following a problem detected on the drilling rig blowout preventer, BOP, according to partner Falkland Oil and Gas ...
ENSCO 51 was on location in Eugene Island Block 273 drilling a development well over a platform when the blowout occured. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, March 1, approximately fifteen hours ...