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4 Essential Drilling Equipment
An oil drilling site is always busy with many moving parts, including essential drilling equipment, such as the oil rig. As a worker or stakeholder in the oil and gas industry, it’s vital to know the crucial components of an oil rig system, and where you can rent or...
What Happens to Old Offshore Rigs?
Offshore oil drilling is one of the most popular drilling methods, but what happens to old offshore rigs when the oil wells become depleted. The oil rigs used in offshore drilling are enormous structures floating on the water surface like skyscrapers. When the oil...
A Snapshot Into Our Most Recently Completed Job: Annular BOPs
The best part about our job is seeing a job when it is complete. We take pride in knowing that we deliver a quality product promptly. Our most recent job included an annular BOP, manifolds, and other API equipment. Let’s look more into these pieces of oil and gas...
What Causes a Blowout on an Oil Rig?
Understanding what causes a blowout on an oil rig can help you devise strategies that ensure the workers’ safety during drilling operations. A blowout or oil rig explosion can be devastating and even cause deaths when not prevented. In 2017, CDC reported 69 fatalities...
5 Types of Oil Rig Accidents
Working in oil-drilling sites exposes workers to various types of oil rig accidents that can cause injuries and deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 44 workers got fatally injured on around 431 oil rigs in Texas. Notably, the injuries...
Elastomer Properties and Where to Use Them
You’ve probably heard about elastomers in oil drilling operations, and you wonder what elastomer properties make this material special. Elastomers are polymers with greater viscosity and elasticity than natural rubber. This viscoelastic material is an excellent...
Renting vs Buying: Which is Right For You?
If you plan to install a blowout preventer, you must compare new BOPs and used BOPs and select what fits your project. The option you’ll choose depends on the complexity of your project and budget. For instance, a used BOP can be more convenient when you don’t have...
What is an Oil Rig Blowout?
You’ve probably read how drilling companies invest so much in blowout prevention, and you wonder, “What is an oil rig blowout? Also known as a ‘kick,’ an oil rig blowout is the sudden and uncontrollable release of oil and gas from a drill pipe during drilling. It can...
How Do Oil Rigs Float?
You’ve probably noticed massive offshore rigs floating in the middle of the ocean, and wondered, “How do oil rigs float on water?” The rig is enormous, with cranes on all sides and hundreds of employees working on it. You might think that the rig is rising from the...
6 Fracking Uses
Hydraulic fracking comes with many benefits due to the several fracking uses. This technique is widely used in the oil and gas industry to increase production. It is very reliable because it increases accessibility to oil and gas deposits lying deep. What are some...
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