Archive | Well Control
More than the sum of its parts: how 20,000-psi subsea BOP stack was designed, developed
Posted on 24 March 2010 in 2010, March/April, Well Control
This article focuses on identifying and completing the GAP technologies necessary for the design and testing of a deepwater 20,000-psi subsea…
Well control simulation software enhancing pre-drill planning, reducing risk of ‘big events’
Posted on 24 March 2010 in 2010, March/April, Well Control
Simulation software is taking the steadfast methods of well control future forward. The industry is seeing a trend in demand by…
Ensuring competency: Are we teaching solutions or just answers?
Posted on 24 November 2009 in HSE & Training, News, Regional Market Trends, Well Control
“This guy has to pass or he can’t go back to the rig” is a blunt remark occasionally made to Glenn Potter, well control instructor with Equilibria Services, when…
WellCAP plays key role in fast-paced Thailand drilling operations
Posted on 24 November 2009 in HSE & Training, News, Offshore Operations, Regional Market Trends, Well Control
WellCAP’s built-in flexibility plays a key role in the safe execution of one of the fastest-paced drilling operations…
Web-, computer-based well control program provides cost-driven, self-paced training
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, HSE & Training, November/December, Well Control
As we address the uncertainties of future activities in the oil and gas industry, the constant remains with the need to drive down lifting costs for operators…
Modified BIBO, LOT applied to trip out from deep HPHT well with simultaneous loss, ballooning
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, HPHT, November/December, Well Control
The leak off test (LOT) and barrel in – barrel out (BIBO) procedures were modified and applied successfully to trip a very deep high-pressure, high-temperature…
Automated system provides well control for extreme drilling environments, enhances MPD
Posted on 10 November 2009 in 2009, Automation, Innovating While Drilling, MPD & UBO, November/December, Well Control
The essence of well control is information. Ideally, downhole information facilitates a knowledgeable, expert response to prevent a costly or even…
When is the right time for training? The answer is always ‘now,’ and the well blowout stats prove it
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, HSE & Training, July/August, Well Control
When 2,000 rigs were out in the field in 2008, drilling contractors barely had time to scratch, let alone think about sending their employees off…
Relief well case study: Modified drillers method used as intervention alternative to bullheading
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, July/August, Well Control
This article summarizes the innovative use of a relief well as a cost-effective and safe alternative for a non-blowout well control intervention.
Well control faces new complexities with deep, HPHT, horizontal, deepwater, multiwell drilling
Posted on 03 November 2009 in 2009, July/August, Well Control
There have been many advances in the drilling industry in the last 20 years. What was once the exotic has now become routine. Some examples are:
Recent News
31 August 2010
Pride dedicates Deep Ocean Clarion drillship
Pride International, Inc. on 25 Aug dedicated the second of its four new deepwater drillships, the Deep Ocean Clarion at Samsung Heavy Industries...
31 August 2010
Approval delays, dispute on flow calculations stall shallow-water drilling permits
The staff of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEM) is being strained to...
31 August 2010
WellCAP designed to advance competency, BOEM officials told
IADC’s internationally recognized well-control training programs are designed to develop competency, IADC Director-Accreditation & Certification...
31 August 2010
Quote of the week
“There is no advantage to the moratorium for anyone.” IADC President Lee Hunt, in an interview on CNBC Power Lunch, 25 August, 2010
31 August 2010
DC numbers
89: percentage of working Americans in industries with higher injury rates than oil and gas extraction. Only commercial banking, insurance carriers and certified public accountants fare better...
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