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 ...

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 ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) is introducing its next-generation technology for shearing and sealing wellbore tubulars at the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.

Federal officials have released a two-volume report from Det Norske Veritas (DNV) on the forensic examination of the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer (BOP), and the report recommends additional ...

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 ...

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 ...