... drilling, marine, and engineering crews together with shore based managers from both operator and drilling contractor. Multiday exercises, built on adult learning principles, confront the crews with life-like well control, weather, and equipment failure scenarios that implicate hydrocarbon containment...

... will focus on one design that provided a remote-opening success rate of 94% in over 140 installations. The valves that did not open remotely were usually those that had been suspended with the ball closed in extremely debris-laden conditions. While the 94% success rate is certainly exceptional, the engineers...