Einar Framnes Saga Petroleum a.s. Forus, Norway Joseph R. Roche Hydril Co. Houston The purpose and effectiveness of a ram blowout preventer (BOP) in a worst case situation was illustrated in related ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BOP Technologies, a Houston-based innovator for oil and gas blowout preventers (BOP) and well intervention systems, is announcing a new approach to allow a BOP to work even ...

A new Deepwater Horizon disaster report, released on June 5, found that the blowout preventer (BOP), designed to shut off the flow of oil and gas from the Macondo well, "failed to seal the well ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) is introducing its next-generation technology for shearing and sealing wellbore tubulars at the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.

This story was updated June 5. An incident similar to the 2010 deepwater Macondo well blowout and resulting oil spill still could occur, the US Chemical Safety Board reported June 5 in releasing its ...

On the evening of April 20, 2010, Deepwater Horizon suffered a blowout while drilling in the Macondo Prospect, an area in the Gulf of Mexico 40 miles off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The platform ...

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A long-awaited report by the US Chemical Safety Board has concluded that malfunctions in the blind shear ram of the blowout preventer at BP's fateful Macondo well helped worsen the deadly 2010 ...

The blind shear rams failed to fully shut in the Macondo oil well because a portion of the drill pipe buckled and bowed from the force of the blowout and became lodged inside the blowout preventer, ...

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