API 16A hydril annular BOP

1,What is the purpose of the Ram BOP?

Blowout Preventers for Well-Boring or Drilling. Blowout Preventers also known as BOP is a large valve that is able to seal off at the surface of a well that is being worked upon or drilled over.

2,What is BOP test?

The term BOP (pronounced B-O-P, not “bop”) is used in oilfield vernacular to refer to blowout preventers. The abbreviated term preventer, usually prefaced by a type (e.g. ram preventer), is used to refer to a single blowout preventer unit.

3,What is BOP equipment?

The BlowOut Preventer (BOP) is a safety equipment to prevent the well to blowout. Designed and engineered for high oil and gas pressures, it is installed on the top of the well casing to contain anything to pass through and generate sub-sea leakages or surface explosion.

4,How deep was the Deep water Horizon well?

Deep water Horizon was an ultra-deep water, dynamically positioned, column-stabilized, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU). The rig was 396 feet (121 m) long and 256 feet (78 m) wide and could operate in waters up to 8,000 feet (2,400 m) deep, to a maximum drill depth of 30,000 feet (9,100 m).

The ram blowout preventer(ram BOP) is an integral part of well control equipment, featuring flexible closings and openings,easy operation, safe service and simple maintenance.

The ram BOP is designed to seal off the tubular annulus or the well. With the ram BOP in the closed position, such operations as circulating drilling fluid, re-leasing pressure and killing the well can be performed by means of the spool beneath the BOP or pipe lines connected to outlet of the BOP body. Under special circumstances, the ram BOP can shear the pipe in the hole to seal off the well. If the ram BOP has variable bore rams, it can seal off the annular space between the casing and the pipes whose sizes are at the mini-mum and maximum of the ram’s range.