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Patent Drawing of Original Shaffer Spherical-type Blowout Preventer (1972) Diagram of an annular blowout preventer in open and fully closed configurations. The flexible annulus (donut) in blue is forced into the drillpipe cavity by the hydraulic pistons.
English: Schematic illustration of a subsea blowout preventer stack installed on the seabed with kill and choke lines shown. Legend: red represents the blowout preventer stack; grey represents the oil flow passage; white tubing represents the kill (left) and choke (right) lines; brown represents the top of the subsea well casing
English: Blowout Preventer diagram showing different types of rams. (a) standard ram (b) pipe ram and (c) shear ram. Date: 7 June 2011: Source: Own work: Author: Egmason:
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Failure of blowout preventer equipment was a major cause of the April 2010 disaster that killed 11 workers and resulted in an estimated 130 million gallons of crude oil spewing into the Gulf of ...
BP (BP) said Friday that the Deepwater Horizon rig's blowout preventer, which failed to prevent oil from the Macondo well from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, has been removed from atop the well.
The blowout preventer is a T-shaped coupling that is screwed onto the top of the casing. It has a passage through the coupling for the drill string. There is a ram with a concave, semi-circular face in each arm of the tee. Each ram is moved in or out by turning its valve stem, which extends beyond the coupling. The ends of the stems are squared ...