Last year, Transocean commissioned a “strictly confidential” study of the reliability of blowout preventers used by deepwater rigs. Using the world’s most authoritative database of oil rig ...

Who fights oil well fires? Because of their intensity ... under control involves carefully capping the well with a new blowout preventer, or "BOP." BOPs are essentially large valves on the surface ...

Blowout Preventers and BOP Spare Parts. Petroleum Oil Tools is a worldwide rebuilder of top name blowout preventers, bop control systems, as well as a supplier of blowout preventer spare parts.

and a huge 450 ton device called a blowout preventer, somehow it was still not possible to control the hydrocarbon flow. At such high pressures, some of the natural gas separated from the oil ...

Flames also shot from another rig, the Q4000,which was burning oil and gas collected from a separate line attached to the busted blowout preventer. Nearby, two shrimp boats pulling fire boom were ...

Operator Premier Oil has suspended operations on the 4/20-1 (Isobel Deep) well, following a problem detected on the drilling rig blowout preventer, BOP, according to partner Falkland Oil and Gas ...

US examines blowout preventer in BP oil spill The failure of the underwater blowout preventer that led to the massive BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was caused by the inability of attached ...