Industry talks to BSEE about BOPsWhat’s wanted, not how to do it, should be in new rules, regulators told; agreement that unthinkable did happen at Macondo well Kristen Nelson Petroleum News
There was general agreement May 22 at a hearing on blowout preventers: The unthinkable did happen at the Macondo well blowout on April 20, 2010: well control was lost; the blowout preventer, or BOP, failed; and as a result lives were lost and the nation’s worst on-water oil spill occurred.
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