Update! Accelerated EDS Results in Improved Drilling Rig DP Operability, 9-Second EDS Enables Shallow Water Drilling DP Ops
2 June 2022
Houston TX: A detailed analysis together with Kongsberg has shown that a 9-second EDS results in dramatically improved DP operability and can enable Shallow Wat...
IADC Chairman Thigpen Highlights New Technologies – K-BOS Success
29 April 2022
Jeremy Thigpen, 2022 IADC Chairman “Technological advances are often designed to further safeguard our employees or to deliver heightened equipment and sy...
The Ultimate in Safety Tech: The K-BOS Provides Well Control Certainty at up to 50% H2S
20 April 2022
Unmatched Shearing and Sealing + Unmatched Component Integrity = the Ultimate in Safety With significant operational experience in the Middle East, the field...
Innovative Seabed Isolation Device for High-Pressure Riser Applications
20 April 2022
Aberdeen, UK: The use of high-pressure subsea riser systems enables some subsea wells to be drilled efficiently using a jack-up rig, therefore allowing operator...
Successful Activation of the K-BOS on the Deepwater Invictus in the US GOM
8 April 2022
Transocean’s Deepwater Invictus has successfully tested K-BOS (Kinetic Blowout Stopper), shearing a 6-5/8” V-150 50 lbs/ft drill pipe at a depth of 2,400 feet. ...
Optimized Well Design Enabled by an Improved Well Control Barrier: the “Shear Anything” K-BOS
29 March 2022
The K-BOS provides the ability to shear anything which enables drilling engineers to consider optimizations to a well design / completion or intervention. Oppor...
Emergency Response Planning Can be Fundamentally Improved with K-BOS
29 March 2022
For Global Release: With the ability to shut-in on a full flowing blowout in milliseconds, K-BOS provides a dramatic improvement in emergency response time to s...
K-BOS Reduces Probability of Blowout by 94% or More
29 March 2022
Riyadh Saudi Arabia: The K-BOS results in more than a 94% reduction in the probability of a blowout in surface drilling applications according to a detailed ind...
13-10M K-BOS Qualified to DNVGL-OS-E101 and API 16A PR2
30 December 2021
HOUSTON TX: Kinetic’s 13-5/8″ bore 10,000 psi rated K-BOS (“13-10M K-BOS”) has been optimized for surface drilling and completion applic...
Kinetic Ships 13-5/8″ 10ksi K-BOS to Brazil
30 December 2021
Houston TX: Kinetic Pressure Control is pleased to announce that the first 13-10M K-BOS has been delivered into service for use in a surface drilling applicatio...