underground blowouts

Improving oil prices have brought increased drilling and production, but also well control failures, due to reduced quality assurance and shortages of competent personnel. Embedding lessons learned from these events, along with integrated use of technology and specialized expertise, can mitigate well control risks.

Law360, New York (December 1, 2017, 7:17 PM EST) -- A General Electric Oil & Gas well parts-making subsidiary on Friday told a Texas federal court that ACE American Insurance is refusing to cover a product liability settlement for a part made by a company it purchased in 2011 under a policy written for the company's ...

For example, if a kick occurs when drilling through a weak, pressure-depleted sandstone layer into a lower overpressured zone, it may result in an underground blowout in the weak sandstone. A narrow drilling pressure window also increases the chances of lost mud circulation during liner runs and cementing. It is difficult ...

One fear was the possibility of underground blowouts near the dam. The study said this scenario is based on the fact that part of the well casing design is not cased in cement, exposing the immediate area to high pressure. If the gas or fluid is exposed to a near-surface fault in the vicinity of the dam, it could ...

Investigators are now trying to determine the cause of the underground blowout and whether anything could have been done to avoid it. But a Times review of state records shows that before and after Southern California Gas asked for the rate hike to pay for a safety program, it was boosting production of its ...

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... sensitive to any overpressuring) which could have inadvertently fractured the formation or even caused an underground blowout. An error in the drilling/completion of a well can be easily avoided on future wells and adding casing or improving/altering casing cementing techniques is fairly straightforward.

The Well Integrity Team's job was to monitor the well after it was capped for the first sign of trouble and remove the cap (a much larger version of the “top hat”) before a subsurface blowout occurred. Armed with model simulations of how the well would behave in various scenarios, they carefully watched the ...

“An underground blowout is a special situation where the uncontrolled fluid flows from one reservoir into the wellbore, along the wellbore, and into another reservoir. Usually this is from deeper higher pressure zones to shallower lower pressure formations.” “Underground blowouts can be very difficult to ...

As reports of an Underground Blowout of the Deepwater Horizon well shaft (in addition to the surface blowout) began to emerge, I found myself needing to learn more about Underground Blowouts than I was being spoon ... Here is all you ever wanted to know about high pressure Underground Blowouts.

The use of fluid dynamics in well control, which the author pioneered, is given careful treatment, along with many other topics such as relief well operations, underground blowouts, slim hole drilling problems, and special services such as fire fighting, capping, and snubbing. In addition, case histories are ...

Opponents of natural gas drilling have consistently spread fear by alleging that hydraulic fracturing contaminates groundwater and releases ...

It was an oil and gas case involving an underground blowout of a well and whether my client had misrepresented to a partner whether they had ...

One fear was the possibility of underground blowouts near the dam. The study said this scenario is based on the fact that part of the well casing ...

Investigators are now trying to determine the cause of the underground blowout and whether anything could have been done to avoid it.

... the rest of us stood atop tables, hanging on to the overhead pipes for support, to catch a good view of the unexpected underground blowout.

That was the dreaded subsurface blowout scenario, where the last vestige ... of uncontrollable flow paths to the surface—a subsurface blowout.

Chu killed top kill on May 28, worried that BP's efforts would cause a subsurface blowout and make the gusher impossible to control.

“Underground blowouts can be very difficult to bring under control, and are historically the most expensive problem in the drilling arena.

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His managerial skills were visible in the controlling of 33 major blowouts of ONGC, OIL India Ltd., Iran offshore of OVL, underground blowout in Najwat Najem block of Qatar offshore. His project management skills outshone in expediting projects of ...

Drilling Risk Management, Inc. ("DRMI") sought coverage under the policy after it experienced two underground blowouts in the well it was drilling. After Gemini partially denied DRMI's claim, DRMI filed suit ... However, on December 5, 2011, DRMI ...

One fear was the possibility of underground blowouts near the dam. The study said this scenario is based on the fact that part of the well casing design is not cased in cement, exposing the immediate area to high pressure.

The study mentions that an "underground blowout" could affect some faults and "pose a potential risk factor" to the dam.

Investigators are now trying to determine the cause of the underground blowout and whether anything could have been done to avoid it.