Today, we remember the 11 crew members who died in the explosion of the Transocean DeepWater Horizon oil rig and the very long, disastrous oil spill that followed. The disaster began 1 year ago tonight. This is a continuation of yesterday’s post. There is an ongoing investigation and a forensic study of the blowout preventer [...]

Posted on April 20th, 2011 by Sherri
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A lot of analysis has been done since last year, including a complete review of all procedures, and a forensic study of the blowout preventer that failed to close off the Macondo well. Ultimately, the last line of defense, the blowout preventer, failed, so there was nothing left to prevent the disaster. Not many lessons [...]

Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Sherri
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