Device that failed to stop oil from spewing into Gulf of Mexico is considered key piece of evidence. NEW ORLEANS — BP PLC said the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf ...

Problems were detected in two blowout preventers on deepwater wells in the Gulf of Mexico last week, causing companies to temporarily cap the wells, officials with the companies involved confirmed to ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - BP says the blowout preventer that failed to stop oil from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico has been removed from the company's well. A BP spokesman said Friday in an e-mail to The ...

The oil and gas industry needs to radically redesign the blowout preventers that are meant to be a last line of defense against runaway wells or else risk a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon ...

WASHINGTON • Lawmakers eager to prevent another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico — and prove to voters that they're responding to the Deepwater Horizon disaster — are insisting on new standards for ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Plc will remove a failed blowout preventer from its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico under watchful eyes of investigators probing the deadly April 20 explosion, the ...

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO - A crane hoisted a key piece of oil spill evidence to the surface of the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday, giving investigators their first chance to personally scrutinize the blowout ...

WASHINGTON - The hydraulic system that powered the blowout preventer at BP's failed Macondo well may never have had the capacity to stop last year's Gulf of Mexico spill or any other such emergency, ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in a memorandum that problems were identified "in recent weeks" with blowout preventers on BP Plc's relief wells, which are seen as the ...