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Discover why more than 100 offshore well operations erupted into destructive blowouts-and learn how to prevent them. This book, based on the SINTEF Offshore Blowout Database, helps you avoid the explains the blowouts that occurred from 1980 to 1994 in the U.S. Gulf Mexico and the North Sea.
You will learn which operations (drilling, completion, production, workover, wireline) were in progress at the onset of 124 different blowouts. This book also reveals the causes for the loss of the primary and secondary barriers and outlines the fatal accident rates.
For preparing risk analyses, this reference supplies the important parameters you need:
Flowpath
Flow Type
Duration
Pollution
Release point
Ignition time
Fatal accident rate
Complete references and a glossary make this volume a necessary tool for petroleum engineers and drilling, production, and workover personnel.
