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- initialism oil industry
blowout preventer - initialism Boy's Own Paper
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High-level talks between Bop TV and SABC TV might soon resut in BOP
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The only way to tinker with the BOP is with remotely operated vehicles, but that's not the same as being able to walk right up and fiddle with the kill line to see if it's clogged with gunk.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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The only way to tinker with the BOP is with remotely operated vehicles, but that's not the same as being able to walk right up and fiddle with the kill line to see if it's clogged with gunk.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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The only way to tinker with the BOP is with remotely operated vehicles, but that's not the same as being able to walk right up and fiddle with the kill line to see if it's clogged with gunk.
Deepwater Horizon and technological catastrophes Joel Achenbach 2010
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From what I've read and seen and talking to people with experience in BOP's, this was totally preventable.
Insert [nothing witty] here. greygirlbeast 2010
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A diagnosis of what went wrong with the blowout preventer, or BOP, is key to explaining the explosion that triggered the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Interior hires firm that OK'd Deepwater safety procedures to do autopsy of failed device Steven Mufson 2010
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The only way to tinker with the BOP is with remotely operated vehicles, but that's not the same as being able to walk right up and fiddle with the kill line to see if it's clogged with gunk.
Freak accident or frontier enterprise? Deep-water drilling is still a big unknown. Joel Achenbach 2010
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From what I've read and seen and talking to people with experience in BOP's, this was totally preventable.
Insert [nothing witty] here. greygirlbeast 2010
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BOP is now soliciting proposals from private parties to act as contractors to administer the Life Connections program.
Balkinization 2006
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By soliciting applications for "single-faith, residential re-entry programs," BOP is expressly signaling a preference for religious providers.
Balkinization 2006
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