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Blowout Preventer

a technology of blowout prevention and oil well, which is applied in the direction of water cleaning, borehole/well accessories, construction, etc., can solve the problems of real emergency, endangering ocean life, polluting beaches, and all means that have been tried to stop the flow have been unsuccessful, so as to prevent or reduce the damage of such an accident

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-11-24
BOYD JOSEPH J
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[0007]Briefly described, in preferred form, the present invention is a means of preventing or reducing the damage from such an accident. The present invention makes no effort to stop the flow of oil, and instead allows the flow to continue, and collect the oil and delivers it to tankers on the surface. The present invention uses a large tank, such a city water tank turned upside

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If the oil pipe breaks close to the well, and for some reason the oil can't be shut off near the ocean bed, a real emergency exists.
The oil is pouring out at high pressure deep underwater, rising to the top and endangering the ocean life and polluting the beaches.
At the present time there is an existing blowout and the oil, under high pressure, is pouring from a broken pipe deep under water, and all means that have been tried to stop the flow have been unsuccessful.
The oil slick now covers many miles and if not stopped will pollute all of the beaches on the Gulf.

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[0010]Referring now in detail to the sole drawing FIGURE, it illustrates various elements of the present invention. The advantages of the present invention is illustrated in the sole FIGURE. The most apparent thing noted is the size of the collector tank 100. It is big for a reason. The oil may e shooting out at an angle from the broken oil well pipe 102, under high pressure, and this may roil the water in the tank, and make a water and oil mixture that given time would separate itself, but there is little time available.

[0011]If it is to be separated, it can be done later, but if the mixture exists it cannot be allowed to escape and pollute the ocean. The large volume of the tank allows the oil to rise to the top, and even if it is a mixture of oil and water, to be pumped off as a mixture through the hoses 102. The large size allows men to enter the tank wearing diving suits, and to work, without in any way interfering with the flow of oil to the top. The tank has a door for the me...

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Abstract

A large open bottomed under water tank having a base, and valves with hoses located on a top cover, so that when the tank is moved over a leaking pipe or oil well, the rising oil from the leak is collected in the tank, and piped through the valves and hoses to a tanker or to land, and prevented from polluting the ocean and beaches.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0001]1. Field of the Invention[0002]The present invention relates to the drilling of oil wells, and to the prevention or the saving of ruptured wells that are deep under water.[0003]2. Description of Related Art[0004]There will be more deep sea oil wells drilled and although this leaking may seem to be a rare type of oil well problem, they may be more common later on as we drill more deep sea wells. The possibility of this happening again should be eliminated.[0005]If the oil pipe breaks close to the well, and for some reason the oil can't be shut off near the ocean bed, a real emergency exists. The oil is pouring out at high pressure deep underwater, rising to the top and endangering the ocean life and polluting the beaches.[0006]At the present time there is an existing blowout and the oil, under high pressure, is pouring from a broken pipe deep under water, and all means that have been tried to stop the flow have been unsuccessful. The oil slick now cov...

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IPC IPC(8): E21B41/00E02B15/04
CPCE21B43/0122
Inventor BOYD, JOSEPH J.
Owner BOYD JOSEPH J