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)--Offshore Technology Conference (OTC): GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) has expanded its suite of blowout preventer (BOP) and remote monitoring and diagnostic (RM&D) technologies for ...

Giant metal shears successfully sliced and closed pipe full of runaway crude in the early moments of last April's Deepwater Horizon disaster, but the oil blasted through rubber gaskets around the ...

GE Oil & Gas is introducing its next-generation technology for shearing and sealing wellbore tubulars at the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston. The new Blind Shear Ram is designed ...

BOP Technologies officials say their BOP design offers a "radical departure" from traditional BOP design. The fact that their BOP design has one-third less parts than a conventional BOP also means ...

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 ...

Offshore operators in the US face toughened standards and new requirements for blowout preventers and other elements of their work under the final well-control rule issued Apr. 14 by the Department of ...

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 ...