terms:blowout_preventer
BOP. (1) A safety device for closing the wellhead, which has rubber rams which can be closed down on the logging cable in the event the well begins to blow out. Blowout preventers may be connected in series for improved control. See illustration at lubricator. See also riser, stuffing box, hydraulic packing head, and flow tube.
(2) Equipment installed at the wellhead at surface level on land rigs and on the seafloor of floating offshore rigs to prevent the escape of pressurized fluids either in the annular space between the casing and drill pipe or in an open hole during drilling and completion operations. See also rams.
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