WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The "root cause" of the Gulf oil rig explosion was the failure of the cement or casing to plug BP's underwater oil well, Transocean Ltd said on Monday in testimony prepared for ...

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 cementing, casing or perhaps both.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Failure to test a cement casing at an oil well in the Timor Sea was a root cause of a blowout that caused Australia's worst offshore oil ...

The West Atlas oil rig after the fire. Failure to test a cement casing at an oil well in the Timor Sea was a root cause of a blowout that caused Australia’s worst offshore oil spill, an inquiry has ...

WASHINGTON - The chief executive 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 cementing, casing or perhaps both.

A study compared the cement casing standards of intermediate and production casing strings with analogous cement casing operations in Iran. Well integrity testing is vital in well design, construction ...

Once a well has been drilled, if it is to become a production well, the well must undergo completion. While drilling a well cuts through the rock formations and allows drilling engineers to reach the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc installed a type of cement casing on its now-ruptured undersea well that it knew ran the risk of leaking gases in order to save money, The New York Times reported on ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - BP Plc installed a type of cement casing on its now-ruptured undersea well that it knew ran the risk of leaking gases in order to save money, The New York Times reported on ...