HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GE Oil & Gas (NYSE: GE) is introducing its next-generation technology for shearing and sealing wellbore tubulars at the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston.

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BOP Technologies, a Houston-based innovator for oil and gas blowout preventers (BOP) and well intervention systems, is announcing a new approach to allow a BOP to work even ...

In developing its take on the 20,000 psi blowout preventer, NOV applied much of the design philosophy behind its 15,000 psi equipment. Jennifer Pallanich has the details. In many respects, NOV’s ultra ...

The blind shear rams failed to fully shut in the Macondo oil well because a portion of the drill pipe buckled and bowed from the force of the blowout and became lodged inside the blowout preventer, ...