Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
Something was wrong.
BP was preparing to plug its well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, and longtime technical adviser Jesse Gagliano was running computer models to finalize details."We have a potential problem here," the Halliburton employee told three colleagues he met in the hallway in BP PLC's Houston headquarters. He said his computer model was predicting a "serious gas flow problem" with BP's well abandonment plan.His idea for addressing the issue would never be carried out. BP decided it wasn't necessary. Five days later, on April 20, the well blew out, causing the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.In an internal report released Wednesday, BP stood by its decision, saying Gagliano's plan would not have stopped the explosion.The disagreement was just one of several that emerged in the days and hours before the blast, according to BP's report and e-mails, documents and testimony gathered by federal investigators. Confusion surrounded crucial tasks and frustration rose among...
All members of Mariner Energy crew alive and accounted for
Open sores. Parasitic infections. Chewed-up-looking fins. Gashes. Mysterious black streaks. Two years after the drilling-rig explosion that touched off the biggest o...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEO of the company that owned the oil drilling rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico says the accident was caused by a failure of its cementi...
The owner of the oil rig that exploded and led to the massive 2010 Gulf oil spill is thwarting a federal board's efforts to make safety recommendations that could pr...
A prosecutor says the owner of the oil rig that exploded and led to the massive 2010 Gulf oil spill is thwarting a federal board's efforts to make safety recommendat...
A government investigation of the deadly explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is set to resume next week.The Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,...
Crew members of a supply vessel that was tethered to the Deepwater Horizon when the oil rig exploded last year in the Gulf of Mexico will be honored at a Coast Guard...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Coast Guard and the Minerals Management Service are holding public hearings on the investigation into what caused an oil rig explosion off the...
MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A second storage tank believed to be from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion has washed ashore in the Florida Panhandle.The Walton C...
Nearly two years after his brother Gordon was killed in the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, Chris Jones had planned to drive in from Baton Rouge with other rela...
A House committee investigating the Gulf oil spill has asked Transocean Ltd. for documents concerning safety and the condition of equipment on the company's ill-fate...
A critical device at the center of an investigation into the Gulf oil rig explosion didn't undergo a rigorous recertification process in 2005 as required by federal ...
Fires in the Gulf of Mexico at two offshore oil facilities in less than five months has spurred environmental groups and some lawmakers to pressure the Obama adminis...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Early finger-pointing erupted Monday among companies involved in the oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and unstopped leak of millions of gall...
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. Th...
A boom from the speakers at church was all it took to send Paula Walker back to that moment of horror on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig."I freaked out," Walker said. ...
Inactive oil rig off the coast of Louisiana explodes
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Eleven men who died in the offshore rig explosion that triggered the Gulf oil spill are being honored at a somber memorial service with tribute...
Coast Guard reports mile-long sheen spreading from site just west of BP disaster
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