The gating item is the 25, 000 lb. blow-out preventer which is set to arrive in November.
Blow Out Preventer that is being required to control the pressures in the well.
Blow Out Preventer (BOP) that must be employed to complete and then test the well.
The Blow Out Preventer is off the well which is being controlled by a down hole safety valve.
April 25: The Coast Guard approves a plan to activate the blow-out preventer.
We in the industry have long had great confidence in the blow-out preventer as the ultimate failsafe piece of safety equipment.
BP's technicians have been unable to activate the blow-out preventer, essentially a massive valve that must be operated remotely by robot submarines.
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.
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.
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.
Systems that were planned to be redundant, like the five-story blowout preventer, turned out to be susceptible to complete collapse.
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The judge also agreed to rule out punitive damages against Cameron International, the manufacturer of the blowout preventer on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon rig, which was rocked by an explosion and fire in 2010 that killed 11 workers and touched off the enormous spill.
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