blowout

The US Chemical Safety Board will investigate the blowout that killed three workers at a Chesapeake Energy well in central Texas.

Regulators say the blowout that killed five workers on a Patterson-UTI rig in Oklahoma was the product of a slow-moving series of missed signals, misleading testing, and miscalculations that failed to control a natural gas influx.

A new tool enables variable bore rams and shear rams to be tested in one run, cutting rig time significantly.

Developing a well-specific subsea-capping contingency plan involves assessing the feasibility of deploying a capping stack from a floating vessel, determining the weight and stability, and performing dynamic-flow simulations of closing the capping stack outlets.

Despite multitier safeguards, blowouts occur. When such accidents happen, rate estimation is an important and daunting task.

Total organized and ran a large exercise to check the ability to efficiently define, implement, and manage the response to a major oil spill resulting from a subsea blowout.