Oil rig blowout, june 07

[ArizonaBob]

Yikes! Thats serious business right there. Hope everyone made it.

[phlip1080]

That's why those guys get 85k a year starting out. Dangerous work

[crudeoilsystems]

wow what a kick

[oilpatchworldcom]

Cool. I'll post this on oilpatchworld for everyone to see

[TheEgg185]

what happened to the guy standing there?

[dtiydr]

Insane pressure..

[ronstar01]

this is not a blow out this is a kick!!!!

[alghzi]

oh gad.....!!!!

[shallowdays01]

what happened to buddy?

[ESLJUNKIE]

Is that liquid hot?

[F4boatman]

When u shut in a blowout like this isn't there an extreme risk of blowing out the shoe?

[F4boatman]

I'm sure the company man ran u off after u ran off his cementers then right. I don't know why a pusher would b fucking with cementers

[roadsiderods22]

Cool. I put this on oilpatchworld,com

[yagsisiht99]

@dirt4134 yeah right , we know what we're doing , if your from the states then you have no fuckn room to talk because you just had one of the biggest fuck ups of all time

[roughneck6103]

@yagsisiht99 actually dumbass that would be a british fuck up

[yagsisiht99]

@roughneck6103 well your country is handling it well dont yeah think

[roughneck6103]

@yagsisiht99 buddy ive worked with guys from canada and they all walked around with their heads up their asses saying ehh..ehhh...what does this lever do eehhh..

[yagsisiht99]

@roughneck6103 haha while they were walkn around doing something , you were sittn down scarfn down burgaz

[roughneck6103]

@yagsisiht99 not exactly, i was a pusher then and they were cementer's and i ran their lazy asses off because it took them 6 hrs just to get rigged up...the only thing they would do is walk to the end of location and smoke. i had my boys...WV boys mind you pack all of their iron for them. they were worthless just like you are. have you even worked in the patch??? probly not

[MrShawn305]

@yagsisiht99 last time I checked BP was a british company.... just drilling here.

[semperfisemperceler]

hope those guys are ok

[djtwig999]

so what happened to that guy stod right next to it ?

[ljones121]

that was one helluva kick and blow out, why didn't their engineer set a better load kil mud on the well, or where the cementing something?

[rewill17]

that guy got out of there? in what time? idk

[bigdmizzle]

They lit it on fire.

[1027sterling]

wow, had to watch several times to find the guy- he ran faster than ever in his life around the other side!

[kuruptsoul]

Wow.. were did the dude go from :08 to :09???

[RorHemi]

@kuruptsoul Look closely at 0:08 You van see the camera freezes for a second then shows him running.

[sbeer6er]

@kuruptsoul he teleported to get out of there, it's the fastest way.

[danner253]

wheres the oil? WHOOSH! Oh there it is!

[HellMaster110]

uhhh... ok then...

[israelramos6]

where's the guy?...

[Petrhrabal]

you mean hell or heaven, right? ;)

[MuerteDeAmor]

he runs off in the middle top of hte screen

[Killsomesparetime]

More bar lmao did he go down the beaver slide or end up in the mud pit? To bad... Beats a rig move.

[obesejim]

Do not fuck with pressurized items.

Thank you for uploading this.

[454jags]

so what wrong with the BOP?

[djprasad81]

Nothing wrong with the bop. i believe bop was eventually used to stop the blow out because it looked like a strong kick.

[klk1900]

sounded like a jet was comming up threw that pipe

[AustraIianGuy]

@klk1900 that's a fake sound added by a fucking noob.

All cameras on our oil rigs do not record sounds.

[klk1900]

@AustraIianGuy ok i see im a flight medic so i dnr know much bout them other than we fly to rigs all the time picking up injured crew workers

[AustraIianGuy]

@klk1900 not a problem but the idiot that made this video added a fake jet engine fly by sound as a blow out explosion sound.

It's kinda phoney.

[klk1900]

@AustraIianGuy

people these days just have to over do everything haha

[adamalmazan]

they were back reaming too i love it

[sethrooo123]

thts an old school rainey shower lol

[BJoniKo]

whats the mud logging company?

[satexadmin]

fools....

[ahtambe]

Holy cow.... how much loss of crude=money would have taken place there!!?? What caused the well to just vomit out in such a vigorous way?

[Xorese]

They had what's called a "blow out", which comes from a kick.

A kick is when the pressure of the oil and gas coming upwards is more then that of the hydrostatic pressure applied by the "mud" (drilling fluid).

When you have a kick and you can't force it out using kill mud/choke/etc... or you rush the process it can cause another kick then you have two to deal with.

When the kick is not handled probably it can turn into a "blow out" which can and will blow everything out of the well.

[Irvs311]

That is a kick which sure as fucking shit turned into a blowout im guessing about 19 seconds later no more mud just gas then shortly after that they lit it.

[sp4cepope]

@Irvs311 What do you mean they lit it?

[AustraIianGuy]

@Xorese thanks for the info but the fake sound of the jet engine flying by used for explosion sound is a bit too fake.

[AustraIianGuy]

@Xorese sounded like you a bit about out drilling proceedure but surely you would have known the stupid sound on this video was a jet engine fly by sound added as a blowout explosion on this lame video.

You would also have known that our cameras on all on rils do not even record sounds.

[lordwill182]

@Xorese the oil and gas are not pushing upwards, its called formation pressure. When your mud hydrostatic is no longer equal to or in most cases greater than the pore pressure of the formation caused by the overburden then you will have an influx into the anulas, called a kick. An uncontrolled kick will allow the well to flow. A blow out is any uncontrollable kick, when primary well control i.e. mud hydrostatic, and secondary well control i.e. BOP systems fail to control the well.

[democratichypocrit]

@Xorese The only way it will blow everything out of the hole is if the pressure is great enough and the formation has the porosity and permeability to do it. Just cause you have a blow out does not mean it has the pressure to blow EVERYTHING out of the hole. I worked on a surface blow out in the Arabian Gulf and it only had a flowing pressure of a little over 100 psi. That will not blow out the drill string, but if you want to believe that go ahead. LOL

[GooGobbler113]

@democratichypocrit It only had a pressure over 100psi? Go into a sealed chamber and see if you can survive your way up to even 10 psi. Over 100psi is a hell of a lot of pressure.

[democratichypocrit]

@GooGobbler113 Fire systems r required 2 have 165 psi with 2 hoses on. Air sys 120 psi, gas wells to 7800+ psi. Atmospheric pressure u breath is 14.7 psi. We drill with over 5000 psi. Ive seen wells shut in with 2900 psi on DP & over 3000 psi on the csg. & that is when the gas is on the bottom of the hole. Calculate new pressure when the gas has been circulated out to the Wellhead. So why r BOPs manufactured with a safe working pressure of 15000 psi? U need 2 think about what u said Goober.

[Danzel9987]

Where the fuck was the mudman?

[bigmando1]

I remeber this video they showed us this vid a couple of years ago. you cant really see the guy but he got the fuck out of there

[abo3aalo14]

where is mud engineer !!!

[Felish85]

thats French Rig

[s2who]

isnt that a kick and not a blow out?

[sublimedude44]

kick and a blowout are essentially the same thing. a kick is more due to mud weight and DP pressures and may not be as severe and is controlled. so i guess im tryin to say that its a blowout.

[s2who]

they took a kick...a blowout is a kick that isnt controlled..when all the mud is gone and you got gas to surface then its a blowout ....right? this is just a burp and not a blowout.

[22Alexandar]

damm,didnt they have a preventer?

[joshjdjdjdjdjdj]

did the guy that was walkin by get like thrown across the floor??

[mulletpimp1234]

what happened to the guy on the floor?

[kylerave123]

if you put snubbers on top,youcan drill -oh,& drill & the snubbers have the annular closed & nobody looks like a asshole?

[hlviper]

my second day as a worm roughneck near odessa, tx was exactly like that. wildcat well kicked at 1300 ft, so we didnt have surface casing to set BOPs. just had conductor pipe. unlike that hand in the video, i was lucky and had stairs off the rig floor where the drawworks are in the video. the 30k-40k lb rotary table was lifted out of the rig floor(snapped cathead/rotary chain) and dropped it back down sideways. pumped over 4700 bbls to displace the pocket.

[frehleyisagod]

AWESOME! At least it will keep one Mexican derrick scrubbin crew busy for awile.

[dipsetjimjones817]

fuck you u white prick mexicans are stronger than yall white fucks

[llamahamfat]

roflcopter

[SRT10TJ]

that is fuckin nutz dude wow now that is a kick!!!!!

[mighore]

GFDRSYTDRYTRYRFIUTRIUOT

[enexti]

how many died xD

[btownmxer]

hurry shut in the rams you wormy bitches!

[debunker1905]

someone's ass got fucked up. I mean imagine what happened to the responsible of the maintenance

[Arthanza]

Had the luxury of seeing that when I was driving trucks. Hauling to oilfields.

[hassiand]

anyone have a lighter? j

[debunker1905]

hahahahaha that was purely mean man hahahahaha

[enexti]

you know.. that typewv of oil cant be lighet so easy

[odek1986]

Watch the roughneck he gets blown down the V-ramp hahahaha

[afotiad]

your a pickle ,its a v door not a v ramp ,also you see the floorhand(weatherford overalls i would say due to 9 5/8 or 13 3/8 on the pipe deck) run around behind the drill pipe Mr expert

[pengieh]

He must have forgotten the key

[lordlugworm]

What did they do before the BOP unit hey?

[afotiad]

swim

[dand06]

in that case that guy was blown to fucking pieces, the pressure vaporized him

[afotiad]

I dont think so you see him running behind the pipe,They would have shut the bag in a little late but still would have got it shut unless it got blown to the crown cause didnt lock in the dogs.lol

[odek1986]

lol u dont no what ur talking about

[lordlugworm]

Bet there was the sweet sound of the Wilden Pump after .SSSSSSSSSSSSSStisss Stiss cough OVA the side

Less likely, but possible, is that the operators did everything right, but hit a VERY high pressure reservoir.

The BOP Unit

Blow out preventer Closes the Rams N cuts the Lot

I belive you may have seen the Green eluminesant liquid That drives them drippin from a few drill rigs;)

[lordlugworm]

This is likely due to the operators using a mud weight that was too low, so when the bit punctured a high pressure reservoir, all the mud (diesel+bentonite dust@ varoius ratios)was blown out of the hole.

Into the sea. MUd is Diesel and rock dust to weight the drilling solution.

This is calculated by the mud logger.

So maybe it Was him? HAHHAHA

[pahtrunjel]

True, it`s operator`s decision what type of mud they use ( WBM / OBM ). The Water Based Mud is very sensitive to changes.

All the calculations about keeping the mud in the operator`s desired parameters is ONLY mud engineer`s job. That has nothing to do w/ mudloggers.

If the mud has the right properties he washed his hands and is the operator that has to deal with this.

[pahtrunjel]

True, it`s operator`s decision what type of mud they use ( WBM / OBM ). The Water Based Mud is very sensitive to changes.

All the calculations about keeping the mud in the operator`s desired parameters is ONLY mud engineer`s job. That has nothing to do w/ mudloggers.

If the mud has the right properties he washed his hands and is the operator that has to deal with this.

[cm22486]

did you see the damn pressure on that, that fucker aint gettin shut in.

[snubb76]

I doubt anyone was hurt...they were on bottom from the looks of it (ie.. turning to the right) and the floorhand noticed wellbore flow, thats why he hauled ass, to shut the bag. If they are on bottom they more than likely have enough string weight to keep em from being snubbed out when they shut the bag, safety rams.

[cjmit79]

at 8 seconds if you pause you can see the floorhand runnin around the left side/behind of the dreaded black leg disease

[jjeeqq]

Hmm. i cant see him running away, he just disappears, something wrong in my youtube? :D

[sp2fraggle]

is that a kick or just from leaving the pump in too long or poping a triple stand that is full? either way cool to see.

[afotiad]

he didnt pop the stand he was rotating to the right possibly drilling or reaeming .

[hooders73]

I am experienced casing hand and that looks like pallet of centralizers going out stairs.(not the floor bushings)

[XanplexD]

Also.. I've noticed the Surface casing on the racks.. Which means they were close to running it. We always got ours a day or so before tagging surface. And is it just me or is that not a Drill collar rack back in front of the drill pipe? Sure looks like a Bit on the bottom of that thing. I've heard of running back in open faced, but never seen it done. I guess we'll never really know what was really going on...

[XanplexD]

I've seen this video countless times in Safety meetings.. We got it the day after it happened for our Pre-tour meeting. You can see the guy run off behind the stands of pipe. The thing that seems to be floating out the V-door is not a Bale.. Maybe a Bit box or something. I was told it was the Bushings. I think other wise.

[afotiad]

that aint no bushings it floats out the door before the gush

[trevman187]

i can still smell the mud man i miss those days...... not but it was some good times

[sparchewsky]

The worst is tring to stab the kelly and takin on a kick in gravel

[foxom11]

I used to work in a drilling rig, one night we had a problem and there was like 9 peoople on the flor ( not counting the Derrick man. and Suddenly we had a small blow out but ( like for 10 or 15 seconds) luckily no body was hurt, but every body had an oily shower. Reson for blow out was poor Cerculation I guess for our case.

[realjoefriday]

There is a significant part of the video missing. Probably a good 30 seconds or so. Note that it goes from everything ok at about 8 seconds to the floor covered with 2 inches of slowly moving water at 9 seconds.  There is a large bale-shaped object that is slowly floating away that has instantly jumped 12 feet during the edit.

There's no telling what happened without seeing the missing part, but my guess is that the rig hand heard what was going on and RAN THE F*#^ AWAY.

[ladychoctaw]

OMG did anyone get hurt or die in this blowout! Work that is way to dangerous!

[resterthetester]

I dont think he made it either. that sucks

[TheDrummingPattikins]

yeah that one guy probably got killed unless he booked it pretty fast outta there, you could see him running at the end there, doubt he made it.

[bizertianos]

i'm sory for that men close to the BOP

[m0ska76]

the next thing you do, on a blowout like that, is run as fast as you can!

[CoyoteBoyUK]

I'm not sure you do control one, I think you just hold on :D

[ruffneckRIG3]

Holy fuck thats some crazy shitt... how do you control it ?

[bigwillfaetherigs]

Close the shear rams and hope!

[andy4an]

This is Australia, and people die in blowouts, I'm sure people were hurt.

This is likely due to the operators using a mud weight that was too low, so when the bit punctured a high pressure reservoir, all the mud was blow out of the hole.

Less likely, but possible, is that the operators did everything right, but hit a VERY high pressure reservoir.

[smokncobra429]

that is crazy. where did this happen and was any one hurt?