Failed Blowout Preventer

… riser package (LMRP) containment cap, which was installed by BP PLC on the top of the Deepwater Horizon’s failed blowout preventer (BOP) in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, had collected and transported 10,500 bbl of oil to the Discoverer Enterprise …

… operational experts are developing options to stop the flow of oil from the Macondo well through interventions via the failed blowout preventer (BOP). An estimated 5,000 b/d is leaking into the gulf. Potential interventions included a “top kill …

… adding that the goal is to finish making the horizontal cut on June 2 so that a cap can be placed on top of the failed blowout preventer ’s lower marine riser package (LMRP) to enable the collection of oil and gas flowing from the runaway Macondo …

… internal investigation’s initial report said that much more work is needed, including full examinations of the failed blowout preventer (BOP), the wellhead, and the rig itself—all currently on the seabed in 5,000 ft of water, BP said. The …

… The top kill procedure might be started on May 23-24 depending upon information still being collected from a failed blowout preventer . Meanwhile, two relief wells are being drilled. An Apr. 20 fire and explosion on Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater …

… Gulf of Mexico, moved significantly closer to finishing a relief well when it lifted the Deepwater Horizon’s failed blowout preventer onto a vessel late Sept. 4 after having installed a different BOP on the well the previous day. An Apr. 20 …

… this event in general, the better off we are.” Transocean Ltd.’s Deepwater Horizon semisubmersible’s failed blowout preventer stack has been retrieved and is on the Helix Q4000 multiservice vessel on Mississippi Canyon Block 252 …