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Blow Out Preventer that is being required to control the pressures in the well.
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Blow Out Preventer (BOP) that must be employed to complete and then test the well.
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The Blow Out Preventer is off the well which is being controlled by a down hole safety valve.
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The gating item is the 25, 000 lb. blow-out preventer which is set to arrive in November.
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April 25: The Coast Guard approves a plan to activate the blow-out preventer.
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We in the industry have long had great confidence in the blow-out preventer as the ultimate failsafe piece of safety equipment.
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BP's technicians have been unable to activate the blow-out preventer, essentially a massive valve that must be operated remotely by robot submarines.
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British oil company BP, one of the firms operating the rig, has not been able to activate a device known as a blow-out preventer, designed to stop oil flow in an emergency.
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While many remember the failed blow-out preventer and bad judgement all-around, a sloppy cement job in the Macondo Well, meant to save a couple of days and a few hundred thousand dollars, failed.
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Mr. Hayward and BP have taken the position that this tragedy is all about a fail-safe blow-out preventer (BOP) failing, but in reality the BOP is really the backup system, and yes we expect that it will work.
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