You may have heard that shear blades can cut drill pipes and now wondering, “What are shear blades made of?” Shear blades play a vital role in preventing blowouts during drilling operations. Whenever a potential blowout or ‘kick’ is about to happen, the shear blades...
Understanding the difference between annular BOPs versus ram BOPs can help you select what’s best for your drilling site. While both blowout preventers serve the same purpose, preventing potential blowouts, they function differently. This guide will help you...
An ideal dual shearing ram enhances operational flexibility with the help of an innovative performance-centered ram interlocking mechanism. The dual shearing ram has arms on the upper part to prevent any vertical separation between upper and lower blades. They also...
The dual-string interlocking (DSI) shear rams are an improvement of the dual-string (DS) shear rams. However, the latter lacks an interlocking feature that can shear wirelines and braided cables without any tension in the line. The DSI rams don’t use a foldover...
Drilling a well is not an easy task for many, and a successful, safe process requires safety equipment like blind shear rams. Knowing what type of blowout preventer to use when covering a wellbore can prove a daunting task even for the slightly experienced engineers....
If you’re an oilfield operator, you need to choose the right blind shear ram BOP to keep everyone on the drilling site safe. That means you have to understand how this blowout preventer works and when exactly you should get a new blind shear ram. How does the blind...
