The safest bet would be a 150K or 235K snubbing unit. Well control is taken very seriously by snubbing contractors. The BOP is the only barrier between the well bore and personnel.

Surface BOP technology steps into deeper water with DP vessels In mid-2003, Shell drilled ultradeepwater Well 1-SHEL-14-RJS in Brazil, proving out an emerging drilling technology and breaking ...

Shaffer Inc. recently completed construction of a multimillion dollar subsea drilling system for Caspmorneftegas, an operating company in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The subsea stack will be ...

National Oilwell Varco NOV recently inked an agreement to sell 20,000-psi blowout preventor stacks (BOP) to Transocean Ltd. RIG, thereby becoming the first oilfield equipment provider to design ...

Hydraulic power fluid, which flows to the BOP stack components, comes from a surface pump or actuator unit through an umbilical, a separate hose, or a rigid conduit connected with the riser joints.

India’s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has invited bids to hire a subsea blowout preventer stack for the drillship Sagar ­Vijay, writes Nishant Ugal.

The system will comprise of a blowout preventer (BOP) stack, including the new SeaONYX V.2 control system, a SeaPrime Pod control system, PR2 H4 Connectors, as well as an 8,202 ft. (2,500 meter ...

The flexibility and versatility of the K-BOS allows for operators to deploy the technology with no disturbance to an existing BOP stack, and for the control system to be either integrated with ...

Norwegian technology player Electrical Subsea & Drilling (ESD) is developing an alternative to electro-hydraulic blowout preventer (BOP) controls technology with an all-electric BOP control system ...

The initial utilization of National Oilwell's (NOV) 20K BOP stack is likely to occur in 2021 in the Gulf of Mexico.