Animation of the Macondo/Deepwater Horizon blowout ... deep in the well are not properly sealed with steel casing and cement. In the film, Mike Williams' young daughter explains the process ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig left its previous post ... Next, they had to line the hole with a casing — a concrete pipe that prevents the hole from caving in. A shorter casing would be easier ...

The numerous technical and operational breakdowns that contributed to the Deepwater ... that the cement put in place after the installation of a long-string production casing was not an effective ...

Dive into the investigation of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and discover what went wrong on that fateful day.

(CNN)-- A timeline of events leading to the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil ... pressure to test for leaks through the cement or well casing, show unexpected results.

GALVESTON — Shortly before 10 p.m. on April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was working ... pump huge volumes of drilling fluid and cement into the hole to counterbalance the ...

Deepwater Horizon’s crew needed to cement the bottom of the well ... They didn’t use very many centralizers to keep the well casing in place. The engineering team in Houston made a flurry ...

the cement contractor on the Deepwater Horizon, pump cement into the casing and to the bottom of the well. The cement passes through a one-way valve, then rises back up into the annulus ...

the most reliable is to continually reinforce a well with permanent sections of casing or with liner and cement. Deepwater Horizon did that nine times. In early March, the rig experienced a double ...

After a massive explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 workers on April 20, 2010, millions of gallons of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico for months, triggering the most ...

April 20 th marks the 15th anniversary of the explosion, caused by gross negligence, which killed 11 workers, destroyed the Deepwater Horizon drill ship and started BP’s months-long oil spill in ...

The men lost in the April 20 blast aboard the Deepwater Horizon were remembered as husbands, fathers, avid hunters and fishermen. "These were exceptional men," Newman said during the emotional ...