Sentence examples for blowout prevention from inspiring English sources
BP was permitted to explore for oil in the gulf at depths at which proven well blowout prevention techniques had not been used.
But first, he said, industry must "raise the bar on its practices and answer fundamental questions about deep-water safety, blowout prevention and containment, and oil spill response".
"Clearly, you'd want to get the blowout prevention equipment back," a technical expert from BP, which owns the well, said at a briefing on May 25. "There's probably going to be a chance to do that".
"I remain open to modifying the new deepwater drilling suspensions based on new information," Mr. Salazar said, "but industry must raise the bar on its practices and answer fundamental questions about deepwater safety, blowout prevention and containment and oil spill response".
Questions about the blowout preventers — which BP executives have said are at least partly to blame for the April 20 accident — date at least to February 2000, when a rig in the Gulf of Mexico spilled oil into the sea after a crew member accidentally pushed the wrong button, severing the connection between the rig and its blowout prevention device, known as a BOP.
Early kick detection and blowout prevention is a major concern in any drilling operation.
The blowout preventer had failed.
The blowout preventer was leaking.
But the blowout preventer did not.
In Steiner's view, Shell and the other companies proposing to work in the offshore Arctic need to develop better blowout risk assessments, prevention plans, and response measures, reviewed not just by BOEMRE but also by other independent bodies such as the National Academy of Sciences or the National Academy of Engineering.
