Transocean Ltd. RIG recently secured a firm contract worth $252 million for its new-build ultra-deepwater drillship the Deepwater Atlas from BOE Exploration & Production LLC (BOE), which includes ...

The BOP on the drill rig could be tested and inspected regularly. The hitch is that mandatory implementation could halt new drilling operations for years while the technology is developed.

These achievements include: The first deployment of a surface BOP drilling system from a dynamically positioned rig worldwide. The deepest water depth well drilled off Brazil. The fourth deepest ...

Offshore operators and drilling ... preventer (BOP) technology for floating drilling operations (Figs. 1 and 2). The technology extends the capability of older and smaller drilling rigs and ...

One of the first pieces of safety equipment designed for oil and gas production, the blowout preventer (BOP) is a large valve at the top of a well that can be closed if the drilling crew loses ...

Exploration begins by BHP Billiton using the Deepwater Invictus rig and supported ... BHP Billiton’s drilling program in Trinidad. Although the core part of our work is on BOP operation, rig ...

The lower part of the BOP is now sitting ... for the Oslo-listed drilling contractor told Upstream “there was nothing to indicate that a technical fault on the rig or equipment was to blame ...

According to the RigLogix team, Cameron leads the pack of BOP companies with approximately 422 BOPs working on offshore rigs. One of the first pieces of safety equipment designed for oil and gas ...