Don't blame the Geologist. He kept telling them to stop drilling and set casing. They hit a loss zone, the well kicked and the gas came up a fault. Initially it was around 500m from the rig but worked its way back towards the rig until it was coming up from under the rig.
Everyone was evacuated and it eventually bridged off but not before doing a lot of damage to the rig. As you can see the BOP was snapped off and never seen again.
Incidentally the co. man got fired for stealing the ships bell.
Don't blame the Geologist. He kept telling them to stop drilling and set casing. They hit a loss zone, the well kicked and the gas came up a fault. Initially it was around 500m from the rig but worked its way back towards the rig until it was coming up from under the rig.
Everyone was evacuated and it eventually bridged off but not before doing a lot of damage to the rig. As you can see the BOP was snapped off and never seen again.
Incidentally the co. man got fired for stealing the ships bell.
I'm sorry, but what exactly happened there? Was there a blow-out where the rig got moving from above the well head, shut it and moved a little meters from there? And what's the stuff coming to the surface? Mud, gas, oil or all of this mixed?!
Happen to us once on a semi, tried killing it, no success. Drop sting and move off (pull anchors) few meters from initial spud. Wasn't this much of a volume though.
Happen to us once on a semi, tried killing it, no success. Drop sting and move off (pull anchors) few meters from initial spud. Wasn't this much of a volume though.
Can someone explain to me what happened? It looks horrible, but I don't really understand. I'm from a town in the middle of Canada called Thunder Bay. The closest thing I've seen to is when a beaver got itself hooked onto my fishing lure.
the seabed in most of the continental slopes is covered by methanhydrate (methan, surrounded and hold together by ice). it is stabilised merely by the pressure and temperature in a depth of 500-2000m. once the circumstances change (raise of temperature or loss of pressure, sometimes caused by oil rig work), methan can leak from its ice-cage and rise towards water surface, where it reaches enough temperature to inflate itself. then, the water seams to boil.
if the oil flow pipe cracked, there would of also been a big oil spill, and if there was gas in the water, that would reduce the buoyancy of the water, thus resulting in the hull ether braking apart, or sinking.
thats what called an underwater blowout . thats when it blows out around the drive pipe and casing and the formation jus falls apart and the sea floor opens up . if it was a jackup in shallow water the rig would have been taken under .
That looks like BOP failure to me, maybe not latched properly? You can clearly see the riser in one shot they must have disconnected the LMRP and hauled ass out of there with the anchors. The rig would sink in the aerated water
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There's no BOP when drilling soft top hole sections, which is when you can get shallow gas! BOPs are installed in hard formations, usually the 17-1/2" section or similar. From the info that I've got, the well blew out in one of the sections below the top hole: BOPs were installed and an FIT had been performed. It appears that the formation failed causing an underground blowout, with the gas breaching the sea bed around the conductor. I suppose we can blame the geologists for that one...!
I'd go with shallow gas pocket being hit. Should have shut the BOP's and all Xmas trees, and depressurse all flowlines and gas plant, thats if it was a rig ........Whatever I know I'd wanna be on the first chopper if this happened on my platform....shore leave don't you just love it eh
They should have spudded the well after having smoko i think, its obvious that the drill pipe has fused with the surface casing,causing the drill collar to colapse the well bore, id say that the swivel and kelly have busted when the bit hit rock.
its a sad sight to see all that gas not being put to use. that would be insane to see up close!! i pray nothing like that happens when i go offshore next month.
jeez, this gives me the absolute creeks. i worked offshore for years in alaska. we couldn't jump in the water too cold, so either burn up or freeze and drown. i'm otta there. this must not be gas because some of the pictures seem to be pretty close if that candle were to go off.
How the hell do you know? If they took a kick, regardless of mud weight, you do not know what the driller or tool pusher did. If no one shut in the BOP's, wtf?
They could have swabbed the well, you do not know.
For top-hole sections, there's no connection between rig and seabed, so they use ROVs to guide the pipe back in the hole. Once top-hole sections are cased off, a wellhead is set on the seabed on top of the casing and a riser (wide-bore pipe) is connected between the wellhead and semi-sub rig. After replacing the drill bit, the assembly run back in hole, usually at a restricted running speed to avoid any hole problems. The casing and open hole guide the pipe back down to bottom.
Well done BP, I remember this. ONGC has drilled on the structure and had a blow out a couple of years earlier. BP did not lean anything and did the same!
Semi-submersible actually means that part of the rig is below the waterline, (the pontoons), which can be ballested to different depths. A semisub can actually be attached to the seabed by means of anchors if it is not a dynamically positioned, (DP) rig.
actually a platform is for production purposes, rigs are for drilling. a semi-sub is used primarily in deeperwater projects and are tethered to the sea floor with anchors or suction pillons.
i work on this rig now.its off the coast of miri.so weird seeing it on youtube
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Don't blame the Geologist. He kept telling them to stop drilling and set casing. They hit a loss zone, the well kicked and the gas came up a fault. Initially it was around 500m from the rig but worked its way back towards the rig until it was coming up from under the rig.
Everyone was evacuated and it eventually bridged off but not before doing a lot of damage to the rig. As you can see the BOP was snapped off and never seen again.
Incidentally the co. man got fired for stealing the ships bell.
gseator 11 months ago
Don't blame the Geologist. He kept telling them to stop drilling and set casing. They hit a loss zone, the well kicked and the gas came up a fault. Initially it was around 500m from the rig but worked its way back towards the rig until it was coming up from under the rig.
Everyone was evacuated and it eventually bridged off but not before doing a lot of damage to the rig. As you can see the BOP was snapped off and never seen again.
Incidentally the co. man got fired for stealing the ships bell.
gseator 11 months ago
you cant even spell practiced. SHUT UP.
J042E 1 year ago
off shore drilling should not be practised. instead, we kill all the saudis, and take their oil.
dimebag4ever426 1 year ago
1:18 the oil rig had to take a shit lmao
KWEKOSHKUKI12 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but what exactly happened there? Was there a blow-out where the rig got moving from above the well head, shut it and moved a little meters from there? And what's the stuff coming to the surface? Mud, gas, oil or all of this mixed?!
WellingtonSS85 1 year ago
whats happening in this video? oil bubble to surface?
emtrixdk 1 year ago
I wonder if its the 8-1/2" Pilot they were drilling? :)
xorro83 1 year ago
I wonder if its the 8-1/2" Pilot they were drilling? :)
xorro83 1 year ago
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Happen to us once on a semi, tried killing it, no success. Drop sting and move off (pull anchors) few meters from initial spud. Wasn't this much of a volume though.
xorro83 1 year ago
Happen to us once on a semi, tried killing it, no success. Drop sting and move off (pull anchors) few meters from initial spud. Wasn't this much of a volume though.
xorro83 1 year ago
That does look like some big volume of shallow gas! Time to beat up em Seismic / Sparker surveys.
xorro83 1 year ago
lucky that rig was a semi submersible, if that was a jack up the rig would have been drown
kucingkopi 1 year ago
That's an underground blow up
prezzogusto 2 years ago
how is it possible?
Sebastian3103 2 years ago
Is that The actinia which was for Reliance in KG basin in 2004 to 2008
amitparab4u 2 years ago
that looks like one hell of a gas pocket. I wonder how many mmcf that would have been?
nhughe 2 years ago
ouch that was a loss of lots of money!
Iraqveterankill4real 2 years ago
thgat is a gas container not a gas pocket
prezzogusto 2 years ago
they should have put some there will be blood music in this
TJHARR007 2 years ago
Can someone explain to me what happened? It looks horrible, but I don't really understand. I'm from a town in the middle of Canada called Thunder Bay. The closest thing I've seen to is when a beaver got itself hooked onto my fishing lure.
suckamsears 2 years ago
the seabed in most of the continental slopes is covered by methanhydrate (methan, surrounded and hold together by ice). it is stabilised merely by the pressure and temperature in a depth of 500-2000m. once the circumstances change (raise of temperature or loss of pressure, sometimes caused by oil rig work), methan can leak from its ice-cage and rise towards water surface, where it reaches enough temperature to inflate itself. then, the water seams to boil.
rrenne 2 years ago
hahahaha
calelandess 2 years ago
Marine Pollution.
h0lin355 2 years ago
if the oil flow pipe cracked, there would of also been a big oil spill, and if there was gas in the water, that would reduce the buoyancy of the water, thus resulting in the hull ether braking apart, or sinking.
MANproducts 3 years ago
Could of lost the rig....
jarvis1211 3 years ago
or wures they culed have lost some one
hamured 3 years ago
thats what called an underwater blowout . thats when it blows out around the drive pipe and casing and the formation jus falls apart and the sea floor opens up . if it was a jackup in shallow water the rig would have been taken under .
outlawcrx 3 years ago
Ive seen better
aussiebloke84 3 years ago
Blow out? Hell no thats god damn Godzilla. You woke him up with yer earth rapin bullshit. Use your money to fix it fuckheads.
attovishnu 3 years ago
the buoyancy effect is actually not that important, since it is countered by inflow from sides.
What is the critical point is the strong gas outflow from the center, which may tilt the vessel located a little off-center.
johnsarelli 3 years ago
What's going on? I think I get that the oil is basically erupting from the bottom?
UFRecords01 3 years ago
that would be gas..not oil...just lookin out.
wormkilla 3 years ago
That looks like BOP failure to me, maybe not latched properly? You can clearly see the riser in one shot they must have disconnected the LMRP and hauled ass out of there with the anchors. The rig would sink in the aerated water
brochloon 3 years ago
Does anyone know what the water depth (KB to ML is fine) was at that location?
RoadRrunner 3 years ago
1. What the consequences of this on environment & stakeholders of the platform?
2. How can mitigate blow out?
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peachjp 3 years ago
what type of effect does this blow out have on the environment? because as we all know were fucked anyway but it looks pretty dodgy.
dozer779 3 years ago
Thats gas coming up? Wouldnt wanna be smoking on that rig.
cyclonerotary 3 years ago
There's no BOP when drilling soft top hole sections, which is when you can get shallow gas! BOPs are installed in hard formations, usually the 17-1/2" section or similar. From the info that I've got, the well blew out in one of the sections below the top hole: BOPs were installed and an FIT had been performed. It appears that the formation failed causing an underground blowout, with the gas breaching the sea bed around the conductor. I suppose we can blame the geologists for that one...!
oilrigdisasters 3 years ago
I'd go with shallow gas pocket being hit. Should have shut the BOP's and all Xmas trees, and depressurse all flowlines and gas plant, thats if it was a rig ........Whatever I know I'd wanna be on the first chopper if this happened on my platform....shore leave don't you just love it eh
markpark2 3 years ago
shallow gas blowout? possibly a hard formation which has fractured due to incorrect mud weight would be my first guess.
company rep, mud engineer and drilling engineer should all be held personally responsible for this.
borbetomagus1 3 years ago
thats intense
sandman101 3 years ago
They should have spudded the well after having smoko i think, its obvious that the drill pipe has fused with the surface casing,causing the drill collar to colapse the well bore, id say that the swivel and kelly have busted when the bit hit rock.
raff62 3 years ago
Wow, at the end of the day... lucky crew!!!
trsatskidon 3 years ago
looks more like they struck shallow gas when spudding the well.
Jamie71q 4 years ago
hey be thank full it was'nt worse
espedicous 4 years ago
its a sad sight to see all that gas not being put to use. that would be insane to see up close!! i pray nothing like that happens when i go offshore next month.
payroll6278 4 years ago
jeez, this gives me the absolute creeks. i worked offshore for years in alaska. we couldn't jump in the water too cold, so either burn up or freeze and drown. i'm otta there. this must not be gas because some of the pictures seem to be pretty close if that candle were to go off.
stonefingers13 4 years ago 2
that is gas and its not the well control that is the mud engineer fault
ttown692002 4 years ago
How the hell do you know? If they took a kick, regardless of mud weight, you do not know what the driller or tool pusher did. If no one shut in the BOP's, wtf?
They could have swabbed the well, you do not know.
Screamtruth 4 years ago
hi/if they have to change the drill head,how do they find the same hole, when its, let's say 2 miles down to the ocean floor? thanks
GeorgeJansen 3 years ago
For top-hole sections, there's no connection between rig and seabed, so they use ROVs to guide the pipe back in the hole. Once top-hole sections are cased off, a wellhead is set on the seabed on top of the casing and a riser (wide-bore pipe) is connected between the wellhead and semi-sub rig. After replacing the drill bit, the assembly run back in hole, usually at a restricted running speed to avoid any hole problems. The casing and open hole guide the pipe back down to bottom.
oilrigdisasters 3 years ago
What re d risks inherent in offshore operations? thanks
opeyemi0606 3 years ago
@oilrigdisasters ...thank you
GeorgeJansen 1 year ago
@GeorgeJansen it has an outer casing, so when they run the tubing it just sets right in
NickelbackPWNS 1 year ago
Well done BP, I remember this. ONGC has drilled on the structure and had a blow out a couple of years earlier. BP did not lean anything and did the same!
oilwatch01 4 years ago
what a fucking disaster! that rig deserved to be burned down, fucking retards
DaUsualSuspect1 4 years ago
Semi-submersible actually means that part of the rig is below the waterline, (the pontoons), which can be ballested to different depths. A semisub can actually be attached to the seabed by means of anchors if it is not a dynamically positioned, (DP) rig.
loysteve 4 years ago
it had a hell of list, they were lucky it didn't sink. I wonder who they used to get the well under control. that would be something to see.
floatpool 4 years ago
They didn't use anybody to control the well, the blowout bridged itself off after a few months.
AlastairWright 4 years ago
what does semi submersible mean?
Amarventris 4 years ago
it means it is not attached to the seabed, it can be moved from one place to another unlike a fixed platform.
sweetleafsman 4 years ago
actually a platform is for production purposes, rigs are for drilling. a semi-sub is used primarily in deeperwater projects and are tethered to the sea floor with anchors or suction pillons.
countryboytitan 4 years ago