NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Federal investigators probing the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster say a critical piece of safety equipment helped trigger the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The report by the Chemical ...

Deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico, a massive blowout preventer was supposed to be Deepwater Horizon’s last line of defense. After the accident, BP sent remotely operated vehicles 1,500 meters underwater ...

Rescue boats attempt to put out the blaze from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig after it exploded on April 20, 2010. The disaster became the worst marine oil spill in American history. NOAA Early one ...

There is a lot of buzz over Senator Frank Lautenberg’s suggestion that oil companies be required to drill a relief well at the same time as they drill any deepwater production well. That would allow ...

James Dupree, who led BP’s efforts to seal its Macondo well, said engineers didn’t have the equipment they needed to attack this particular well at the time of the blowout and had to formulate several ...

You've probably heard about the Deepwater Horizon disaster—the largest marine oil spill in history. But how much do you really know about what happened, and why? More than a decade has passed since ...

Until this week, the general impression of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf has been that the explosion took everyone by surprise, and that neither BP nor a dysfunctional MMS had any idea ...

Today marks the anniversary of the disastrous blow out of the BP oil rig “Deepwater Horizon”. Today marks the anniversary of the disastrous blow out of the BP oil rig “Deepwater Horizon”. When the rig ...