"blowout" is an accepted and usable word in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation that got out of control or became particularly intense or wild. For example: "The party ended up being a bit of a blowout; the neighbours had to call the police to come and calm things down."
The company was still reeling from the impact of the Macondo blowout and the billions of dollars that it had been forced to pay out for clean up and compensation.
YESTERDAY the National Commission on the Deepwater Horizon spill released a chapter of its forthcoming report in which it excoriated BP, Halliburton and Transocean for failures of management that directly led to the blowout.
If the lining of the well below the surface has been weakened, either by the initial blowout or by the erosive power of the millions of barrels of oil that have flowed through since, that increase in pressure could cause the well to spring a leak below the seabed, letting oil and gas escape out into the sediments through which the well is drilled.
AN OIL WELL suffers a blowout, causing a fatal explosion on an offshore platform.
Far from revealing them as the party of no, says Eric Cantor, the Republican whip in the House, the Republicans' unanimous rejection showed that they were the "adults in the room at a reckless liberal blowout on the taxpayers' dime .Maybe.
Steven Chu, America's energy secretary, was reportedly shocked to find that the only source of information from the Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer was a single gauge.
The Macondo well is a set of fatal initial mistakes, a blowout and three months of uncontrolled flow removed from being a properly-functional well.
When the oil and gas reached the rig, they were diverted not overboard, as might have been wiser, but to a system called the mud-gas separator which spewed gas back onto the rig.Then there was the blowout preventer, a huge stack of valves on the sea floor.
The rig was owned and operated by Transocean, a once US but now Swiss firm, the lease is 25% owned by Andarko, a Houston-based firm, the blowout preventer was made by Cameron international, also from Houston, the casing for the wellhead was constructed and serviced by Halliburton, engineering services were provided by ML Swaco, part of Schlumberger (with an HQ in Houston).
Studies of the blowout preventer's control pods suggest that a flattish battery and a dodgy valve meant that neither was in a fit state to close off the well automatically when they should have, which BP takes as evidence of poor maintenance by Transocean.
