2. Sea water shorted out circuits in the ballast control panel, causing valves to open on their own. Water rushed into the ballast tanks and the rig began to list forward. 3. As a result of the ...

If this valve jammed ... searched the globe for more powerful ones, engineers plotted out a plan essentially to trick the blind shear ram into closing. When the rig’s control panels fail ...

Oil & Gas Time Rolling offers a wide range of oilfield equipments include Land Rig 1500hp/2000hp/3000hp ... Three Screw Pumps, Gate Valves, Globe Valves, Ball valves, Butterfly Valves etc.

BATON ROUGE, La. — Donald Vidrine, one of two BP supervisors on the Deepwater Horizon when the drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, died Saturday in Louisiana at age 69.

Those jobs include full-time rig crews, offshore supply boat crews ... The company moves freight and warehouses spare parts, such as valves, and tools for the offshore industry.