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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2017
Applicant:
Cameron International Corporation, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Melvyn Whitby, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 5/06 (2006.01); E21B 33/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16K 5/0605 (2013.01); E21B 33/061 (2013.01); E21B 33/062 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system has a blowout preventer (BOP) assembly with first and second BOP portions. The first BOP portion has one or more rams configured to move between a first open position and a first closed position relative to a central bore. The second BOP portion has an inner cylinder with a bore, wherein the inner cylinder is configured to rotate about an axis crosswise to the central bore to move between a second open position with the bore aligned with the central bore and a second closed position with the bore out of alignment with the central bore.