Pipe kept blowout preventer from stopping BP oil spill, report says
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - 20:30
in Earth & Climate
An investigation finds that when the Deepwater Horizon rig crew lost control of an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in April, a section of drill pipe buckled and got stuck in the blowout preventer.The blowout preventer designed to shut down a BP well in an emergency couldn't stop a gusher of deep sea oil into the Gulf of Mexico because a damaged piece of drill pipe got in the way, according to a federal report released Wednesday.