Operator Premier Oil has suspended operations on the 4/20-1 (Isobel Deep) well, following a problem detected on the drilling rig blowout preventer, BOP, according to partner Falkland Oil and Gas ...

ENSCO 51 was on location in Eugene Island Block 273 drilling a development well over a platform when the blowout occured. Shortly after midnight on Thursday, March 1, approximately fifteen hours ...

Aging and abandoned oil wells in West Texas are causing significant environmental damage, public health risks, and financial ...

The Railroad Commission, which regulates oil and gas drilling and plugging in Texas ... has responded to several recent well emergencies. Plugging the well that caused the December 2023 blowout cost ...

Abandoned and orphaned oil wells in West Texas are causing costly environmental hazards like sinkholes and leaks, prompting ...

Relatively heavy mud was used during the drilling to prevent possible blowouts as well as to avoid dissolution of thick salt intervals. Still both oil and gas were observed in the drilling mud ...