'choke line' is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to describe a situation when demand outstrips supply or capacity, e.g. 'Sales of the new product have reached the choke line, with no more expected to be available until next month.'.
A leaking choke line has added delay to tests designed to make sure the well can tolerate the pressures engendered by a firm seal on the top.
In the static kill procedure, engineers poured 2,300 barrels of mud at slow but gradually accelerating speeds from a surface vessel through a choke line into the blowout preventer on top of the well and into the oil reservoir.
Through the afternoon, engineers pumped mud weighing about 13.2 pounds per gallon at slow speeds from a surface vessel through a choke line into the blowout preventer on top of the well.
In a letter to Rear Adm. James A. Watson, the government's on-scene commander of the spill cleanup, Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said that by Tuesday a drill ship, the Q4000, would be able to burn 5,000 barrels to 10,000 barrels of oil a day collected through pipes connected to the so-called choke line at the wellhead.
In a letter to Rear Adm. James A. Watson, the government's on-scene commander of the spill cleanup, Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said that by Tuesday a drillship, the Q4000, would be able to burn 5,000 barrels to 10,000 barrels of oil a day collected through pipes connected to the so-called choke line at the wellhead.
The first application was used in drilling as a 15,000 psi kill and choke line.
Often the expression "BOP" is used for "BOP stacks," which is an assembly of many blowout preventers (annular preventers, pipe ram preventers, shear or blind rams) and other well control equipment such as the kill and choke lines (Huse and Alme 2013).
One other bit of information I learned was that BP is reconstructing the kill and choke lines from the BOP back to the Enterprise, so they can conduct these operations from the surface.
It is clearly hard for him to choke out lines like "one American family," but murder really moves this man, almost as much as "beautiful, clean coal".
Can they expect the Bulls to choke at the line?
Ladbrokes' long-term shareholders may choke on this line in Wednesday's announcement of chief executive Richard Glynn's looming departure: "Ladbrokes has been transformed," declared chairman Peter Erskine.
