Some of the new safety requirements on blowout preventers and diverters include: – Requiring diverter systems in areas where drilling hazards are known and anticipated to exist, requiring testing of ...

"The decision to continue drilling operations is subject to approvals ... explosions or oil spills and the diverter worked as planned. The blowout occurred Feb. 15; the well ceased flowing on ...

“When you're drilling the surface hole in a well, you can't use a blow-out preventer, because there is no pipe to attach the blow out preventer to. So you have to use a diverter, and the ...

With the drill at about 2,500 feet, methane and 42,000 gallons of drilling mud were released from a diverter pipe 75 feet from the rig, with some spewing on the snow-covered tundra and the ice pad ...

Drilling mud and methane gas shot from the well through a diverter pipe, but none of the 76 workers on the rig were injured, no oil was spilled and the gas didn't ignite, the officials said.

About 42,000 gallons of drilling mud shot out of a diverter outlet Wednesday, some of it landing on tundra. No oil came out of the well, officials said. Commissioner Cathy Foerster of the Alaska ...