Blowout preventers are not new technology, but BP has had issues with them before.
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All this equates to a lot of captive opportunities to push products like pumps and compressors and blowout preventers.
We will participate in industry-wide efforts to improve the safety and reliability of subsea blow-out preventers and deep water drilling practices.
The book is a sane and salient interpretation of the mess of junk shots, top kills, ram blocks, boreholes, reamer shoes and blowout preventers.
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For years before Deepwater Horizon the oil industry planned on the basis that the blowout preventers on top of wells would live up to their name.
"The Homeland Security Advisory System serves various audiences, notably state and local first preventers and first responders, numerous private sector entities and the American citizen and general public, " he said.
Faulty blowout preventers, errors in the management of drilling fluids, a sub-par cementing job, questionable well design, haste it was a confluence of these factors that led to the blowout.
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Blowout preventers (BOPs) are designed to deal with bubbles.
At these depths, everything must be done with remote-control robots that install the blowout preventers, submersible pumps and other devices to manage the flow of oil and water on the ocean floor.
It took into -- it takes into account the varying circumstances of and the different types of technologies that are used for different blowout preventers in different depths of water in the Gulf.
Since the April 20 explosions and fire, BP is carefully evaluating the subsea blow-out preventers used in all our drilling operations world-wide, including the testing and maintenance procedures of our drilling contractors using the devices.
New techniques have been developed to "sidetrack" a well when the pipe gets stuck or to control the pressures and temperatures found five miles down into the earth's crust with blow-out preventers and special purpose high-tech drilling rigs.
Obviously that would complicate -- be a very complicated situation to deal with because, again, you could have oil coming from a lot of different, or several different places that don't have blowout preventers on top of them -- right?
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