Abstract: An apparatus for tensioning bonnet studs of a blowout preventer, said apparatus having a body with a pair of recesses and a piston positioned in each recess, each of the pistons having a piston rod extending from the body with a stud and nut receiving recess at the outer end of each piston rod, a pair of tension rods having internal threads at their outer ends of engagement with bonnet studs, means for providing engagement between the body and the tension rods, a passage through the body to the body recesses for application of a pressure fluid to the pistons, the pistons and the tension rods being positioned on the body so that when the piston rods are positioned over two opposite bonnet studs the tension rods engage two other opposite bonnet studs.

Abstract: A shear ram assembly for a blowout preventer having a pair of rams with opposed shear blades, means for moving the shear blades across the pipe opening of the blowout preventer, one of the rams having a shoulder spaced from the shearing plane of the blades, a face seal mounted in a recess in the ram having the shoulder and positioned so that the blade on the other ram bends the cut pipe around the shoulder and then seals against said face seal, and means for preventing metal parts from collecting in front of said face seal.