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2012/05/23 13:35
2012/05/23 13:35
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The coming mandates, set to be proposed by September, focus on the hulking Blowout preventers that sit atop the wellhead and are a last line of defense against surging oil and gas. During an...
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2012/05/11 10:47
2012/05/11 10:47
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Friday, May 11, 2012 | 3:24 a.m. State oil and gas regulators are blaming mechanical failure for a natural gas well blowout in eastern Wyoming last month. The Casper Star-Tribune reports (...
2012/05/03 06:24
2012/05/03 06:24
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Eleven individuals lost their lives in the accident. The disaster was caused by a faulty Blowout preventer, which is intended to thwart the release of crude oil. By Earth Day 2010, a...
2012/05/03 01:15
2012/05/03 01:15
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... real time.” One frequent blind spot now is the exact position of pipe-cutting rams inside the Blowout preventers that can be used to seal off wells in emergencies. In the first few days after...
2012/05/01 17:44
2012/05/01 17:44
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... engineers and forensic analysts for changes to the way emergency devices known as Blowout preventers are designed and tested, after the BOP used at BP’s doomed Macondo well failed to...
2012/04/25 16:01
2012/04/25 16:01
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... equipment at the surface of the well where casing strings are suspended and the Blowout preventer or Christmas tree is connected. The Christmas tree is the main assembly of valves...