The drilling rig cost BP about $530,000 per day to lease, not including the daily rates for the many contractors on board. And the project was delayed repeatedly, having started in October 2009 by ...

A key chapter from the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill's final report shows the panel is pulling no punches in assigning blame for last April's oil rig explosion. That ...

The large-scale Electronic Flight Control System Rig (EFCS Rig) facility is based at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) Institute of Flight Systems in Braunschweig; it is designed to conduct efficient, ...

A memo offers the most detailed accounting of the events and decisions made aboard the Deepwater Horizon in the final hours before the April 20 blast.

Current automated functionalities include automated tripping and reaming control, automated and optimized pump-buildup control, automated well friction test (pick up/rotation/slack off), bit-load ...

Epiroc Rig Control System update Credit: Epiroc Epiroc has introduced RCS 4.20, ... “Before its release, we put RCS 4.20 to the test in multiple environments around the globe.

Extensive experiments were carried out to characterise the vertical dynamics of the AFM. In collaboration with our partner KW automotive GmbH, which is funded as part of the KIFAHR project, the ...