12.20.23 -- API Calls For Removal Of Barriers To Energy Production In Alaska

Nearly all industrial processes and manufacturing operations rely on natural gas as a fuel, even if it is only for plant heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC). Heavy-duty industrial plant processes (Figure 1), such as those found in oil and gas, refining, chemical production, and electric power generation, as well as those in the manufacturing industries, including steel, aluminum, glass, and others, depend heavily on natural gas to fuel the processes used in their production.

Blowout preventers (BOPs) are assemblies of valves, hydraulics, and electrical devices used to prevent the uncontrolled release of oil or gas. They are deployed on both land and ocean drilling rigs, secured to the wellhead at the top of the well bore.