BOP multiplex controls
18 July 2017Borehole
18 July 2017BOP ram type
A device designed or form a seal on the hole with no pipe or in the annular space with pipe in the hole. The equipment can use pipe rams, blind rams, or blind/shear/cutter rams to effect the required seal, according to equipment availability, arrangement of the equipment, and/or existing well conditions. Pipe rams have ends contoured to seal around pipe to close and seal the annular space. Blind rams have ends not intended to seal against any tubulars, rather they seal against each other to effectively close and seal the wellbore. Blind/shear/cutter rams are blind rams equipped with a built-in cutting edge that will shear tubulars that may be in the hole, thus allowing the blind rams to close against each and seal the wellbore.