The report, completed in 2000, concluded that the greatest vulnerability by far on the entire blowout preventer was one of the small shuttle valves leading directly to the blind shear ram.

A more complicated method for bringing a blown-out well under control involves carefully capping the well with a new blowout preventer, or "BOP." BOPs are essentially large valves on the surface ...

SLB launched its EWC electric well control technologies to remove the inefficiency of traditional hydraulic systems and ...

Petroleum Oil Tools remanufactures and rebuilds blowout preventer stacks for oil and gas drilling rigs. Each oil well BOP stack is remanufactured to the variety of style, size, and pressure ...