No well is worth your life. I can tell a good hand by how fast they run away when shit like this happens. These wells are insured and the guys who own them would rather have it blow than you get killed. Remember, this is not your well. Shut it in if you can, but recognize when to bail. These guys are lucky it didn't spark. I'm a company man in West Texas. I've seen this happen before and applauded my hands for getting out quickly. The well will subside eventually. You shut it in and start cleaning up. It happens. And for all the tough guys shit talking, your drawers would look like that well in this situation.
What the hell does the environment have to do with it? The planet will be fine - it doesn't need any damned environmentalists telling folks what they should not do.
Don't be a shithead. Is that tong power unit still running. And why is this so funny. You don't send the guy up. You drop the joint joint down and then close.
Or it blowing tf off as soon as you try to stab it. Arguing with some guy who said "why don't they close the bop and divert the oil through the manifold" he claims to be an engineer and he'd eat me for breakfast with how smart he is... lmfao looks like someone failed well control school. Which I know he's lying cuz he claim I don't know whats going on even though I've been in that exact situation? I wasn't there idk what's going on lol ahh I love youtube consultants.. watch a couple videos and think they understand the oilfield
And those clowns in the truck are who to the job? If one of them is a company man he needs a slap upside the head, no clue about well control. In 13 years of consulting I've never had a well get out of hand and in the slightest showing of a kick you get your ass out there and use what your supposed to have for experience and get shit under control before shit like this happens, and to laugh about it?
I dont think its a laughable situation. Those men on the floor are playing with devil and should play safe. No well is worth a life. That pressure could easily blew off someones head.
Zain your dead on, I fracked in Alberta and BC its dangerous. Nothing is more dangerous then driving in shitty weather. You have not worked in the oil patch if you have not almost died driving awake for 18 hours 😴
I think the pressure is the lest of their worries, I think it's the fact that their near gas that can explode, just with some friction and that rig will blowup
@@skylarleaureaux2925 yes the pressure is the least of the problem. One static electricity shock and everything wet with that shit is now on fire. Big Big Big fire... If they live through it they're gonna wish they didn't and everything with in a 30' diameter of that wellhead is going to be cooked to complete destruction.
@@colinbrown9044 I houred out driving on the way to peace river and vividly remember watching my coworker/roommate/dear friend slap the living shit out of his face for 2 hours to get us home in one piece. I was awake but legally was off the road for 72hrs but not Aaron, so they sent us to a 10hr job 4 hours drive each way🤣 I never had a problem with the weather, but being a wellhead guy I'd load my truck before I went home, get to the shop early and charge out for a safe drive. Definitely many times beyond my comfort level though. I do miss most of that sometimes.
Would you still god bless them if it would have caught fire and burned them alive trying to save a billionaires well. And all the company would have told their wives is sorry for your loss. He WAS a great worker. I hate a company man that doesn't own a share in the fukkin company
Company man prob got laid off, if the tool hand wasnt there to supervise, he is prob gone as well. At the end of the day, when you have a well that could possibly take a lick, there should always be a set of shears in one of the double BOP'S
I'm trying to figure out how that amount of pressure is blowing out of a well that needed a pump jack before the work over rig showed up. Is that fracking fluid blowing out? Wtfidunno.
Ryan, It's a good possibility the well was freshly fracked within a couple of days.The whole picture we watched is exactly what a frac blowout looks like that is out of control. Oil mixed with natural gas mixed with frac water. The same look as ones I have been on. They let it get away from them. A blow out has a progressive start leading into where the clip started at. SOP is make sure well stays killed or is on a vacuum. There is always a kill truck or reverse unit on location with heavy fluid transports to feed the kill truck or reverse unit. As soon as well loses vacuum or air starts coming up, on goes the TIW valve and pumping equipment hooked to it. Most Pulling Units or rigs I have been on has a 3 or 4 foot tall TIW to hook up quickly and get the kill truck or reverse unit on it to put it back on a vacuum. They probably were trying to utilize a reverse units swivel on top of tubing but the gamble didn't pay off as they didn't get it hooked up fast enough.
@@RadioSupere was this a situation where they milled out a bridge plug after frac with air/mist(under balanced) and the float sub failed? Looks like a quickie flow back to me. Blowouts happen REAL fast in that situation....frac managers can only bow their heads to the oilfield sprites when the producers asses get mono from the onsite company men.
@@gqoniefh Generally when drilling out a bridge plug, or any plug for that matter they have a reverse unit hooked up to handle any kick they may get. If they are expecting pressure, they'll have a sevice company on location that can handle higher pressures and rate. It looks to me like they weren't paying attention to how the well was acting or it took them too long to hook up to kill it and they got bit. And/or they didn't pump enough kill fluid the last time the hooked up to kill it.
@@RadioSupere so the "blowout" here is thru tubing rather than up the backside(and the tubing isn't blowing out-maybe pipe rams have been closed). They couldn't have been using water to drill out a bridge plug when that happened. Hydrostatic head is too high. They HAD to be using air compressors with a mist pump or CNG with a mist pump to drill out a bridge and the float sub either didn't exist in the BHA or it simply failed while breaking through it into the previously fracked zone. If they were tripping out and the well blew out it would have done it through the annulus. Not up the tubing. Anyway I'm curious how it turned out. Wonder if the frac job was all blown back out. And with that much pressure/volume sandblast the tubing in half somewhere down hole?
@@gqoniefh The pipe rams are closed for sure, if they weren't, no way those dudes would be on the platform. I read somwhere in the comments they thought they were dealing with casing. Here's a scenario for you, one I've been on a few times. They are PTA-ing a well but want to recover some pipe (casing in this example) they make sure the well is static (dead) then shoot it off where they want to start pulling, no tools, nothing to stop any kind of flow except to put a fitting on top of casing to hook some type of pumping equipment. So they pull up a few joints up past a previous production zone that maybe wasn't producing much anymore and they squeezed it off with cement years ago. Well, pulling the pipe messed up the deteriorating sq. job and that formation, that production zone came in on them. Probably just a bridged off or plugged off zone. I've went out to PTA a well that had been shut in for 8 years. When we opened the backside we had solid crude under pressure looking at us. A couple of frac tanks were ordered and hooked up to the well and then opened up to the tanks. 4000 bbls of crude was recovered. They decided not to PTA the well. For the pipe to not spaghetti all around location it would have to have had a closed valve on it. You need a weighted fluid to kill a well and pump pressure if too much pressure is associated with the blowout. You'd be suprised at some of the monstrous looking blowouts that took hardly any effort at all to kill them. Your right if they had the correct tools in the BHA it would have been strictly annular but if not it'll be comming up both. I doubt if that frac job, if it is a frac job blew back out. It looks like it did some good, there is oil in the blow back. I doubt sanblast the tubing in half but a bad set tool or fitting of some sort, for sure.
Had the experience of working for the Red Adair co. for quite some time.Never understood why we would get there,the crew 5-7 hands would have perished. Back off call a well control company.We worked mostly in pairs, teamwork was always #2(safety) #1.
You probably recognize the names of me and my ex.. Matthew's (me) not my blood name. And the ex was a Hansen. Still got the stickers to back it up. Lol!
I used to run a rig around there and that’s a everyday thing, we used to dig a big hole for the oil to go in and we would run pipe and just let it blow, we wouldn’t stop until we set our packer then we shut it down. If you shut it in then you have to kill the well.
worked in a field with water flood. most of the time the wells weren't under control just out of balance on the side you needed it to be . usually flowing on the other side.
when I was hauling crude to the rail from wells, they would charge you 10k in fines if you spilled anything over a 5 gallon bucket of crude. Then have a clean up crew come dig the dirt up and take it to a French well for disposals. Which you paid for also. But here is thousands of gallons spraying every where.
One flare stack on a lease next door to the one I was on was deafeningly loud. Fighter jet, afterburner loud. Flame was 50-75' long and there was an equal gap from the stack to the flare...ZERO snow left on that lease and not much on ours at below -40. It burned like that for days, this amount is nothing.
@@obtuseangler768when I was a gas well testing we were working up in Northern British Columbia we were testing these wells they were flowing 45 Million cubic feet of gas per day they were open hole 9" casing with no tubing the initial shut-in pressures were about 3,200 PSI and by the time we were done flowing them it would clean itself up (get rid of fluid or send the is at the bottom) and we would shut them in and be almost at 4,000 PSI insane wells absolute monsters usually the pressure is drop after flowing them they don't increase our company built brand new custom high pressure high volume P-tanks that were good for 750 lb of back pressure when normal ones are rated for 100 lb our flow line was rated for 10,000 lb we had a 100-foot flare stack we would flow the wells for only 6 hours in 6 hours we figured that we flared off enough gas to supply the whole town of Spruce Grove Alberta for one whole winter and with that 100-foot flare stack in 6 hours we would melt almost all the snow and muskeg on the whole location to where you're walking in mud almost up to your knees it would take three days to let the location freeze over again so we could get trucks in to move our equipment to the next location but the best part was you couldn't keep anything on any counters you put a cup down you could watch it literally walk off the table like it was to the point where it was almost blurring your vision like if you sit in the car with a big stereo talking was out of the question you can hear anything so we basically had to do everything by hand signals or write it down and we were breaking the sound barrier it sounded like a fighter jet 20 miles away they could hear the noise of the flare breaking the sound barrier that was just the most insanely awesomest experience i've ever had in my life and I wish I could do it again it was such an adrenaline rush it humbles you and gives you such a respect for mother nature after seeing something like that. 🔥⭐😎👍🔥
The bop here would only seal around the tubing/casing. The casing itself would need to be sealed with a TIW valve which they were trying to do here but the valve needs to be opened before you stab it in the well. Once you screw the valve in you can close it and seal the tubing/casing. The valve these guys had was up in the air on another section of pipe in the closed position so they couldn't install it without the pressure from the well blowing it out of the way. Poor preparation on behalf of the rig operator to not confirm the TIW is in the opened position.
much easier to stab the open valve at floor level. no way to stab a closed valve even with the weight of a joint to help. the well is blowing way too hard. enviromentally if there isn't saltwater with the oil and gas could kill some vegetation but most would come back from the roots. untreated crude oil is more of a fertilizer.
I'm gonna have to say I'm one of those Dudes That would have Kept Trying and not abandon my guys and get some well control . Some of us don't give up or run . We are to Stupid 💪🤠
Unreal. This kinda stuff happen very often on service rigs? Ridiculous oilfield shit in general is why this guy said being a level 2 wellhead tech wasn't really worth it. Level 3 is offshore, which is a while different ballgame. A $10k -15k wellhead we'd build in 2 or 3 hours for land costs well over a $mil and takes over a month. How a rig costing 50k+ a day, taking 4 months to drill a duster wants to save $1500 by not having trained professionals come install a tubing hanger. Wtf is wrong with people. I've had to kick everyone off lease except for the airhand, service rig push and the chemical firetruck while we froze a well with nitro to fix a 8psi 9% well. Just too many bad stories💩 Powder blasting is way more fun and honest...you can't pass a poorly loaded hole off on someone else. The blast speaks for itself everytime. Stay safe everyone🤘
You would need to attach pumping equipment onto the casing stump through the TIW valve but they could not install the valve because it was in the closed position up in the air
So not sure about this well but out here in SoCal we would run a three piece Blow Out Preventer (BOP). It would consist of an annular on top. Pipe rams in the middle and blind rams on bottom. The annular was a big hydrulic bag that when filled would seal around the pipe. Used most of the time during breaks or meal periods. The pipe rams were hydraulic cylinders that would clamp steel jaws with seals around the pipe. Change these to match pipe size. Last on bottom would be your blind rams that were just steel plates that would shear the pipe in the hole and seal the well. Close those and call a fishing company lol. Here they would also need an inside BOP. They could have had the vale open and throw it on thread it tight then slowly close the valve. These guys were just untrained and unprepared. Eventually the pressure will go down or the pump heavy water to displace it.
Tiw valve. Valve was closed on top. Should have been open. The big guy in the truck went out in his boxers. Had them open the TIW aloft, stabbed the joint, made it up and then a guy went up with tugger and harness the closed it... Pumped on it for awhile and killed the well again. The big guy is snack bar and he is the guy who got it taken care of. The company man was a mile away first chance he had...
I don't fully know how workover rigs work but my best guess is chemical to stimulate the flow of the well by the workover rig and/or chemicals added between competition and workover rig job. Edit: I didn't want to give you the wrong answer before consulting. The green chem is actually crude oil.
김송 By the color of it looks like condensate... very light oil and more appt to catch on fire. If you held some of it in a clear glass against sunlight you'd be able to see through it. Crude oil comes in many different colors.
Imagine a world where oil companies have a crap about the people who actually pulled the stuff out of the ground? It's dangerous work because it's cheaper that way.
It’s a wonder that spray didn’t cut that guy in two. Wait for the pro’s that have the equipment and training... trying to move an emergency valve into a high-pressure stream laterally is like trying to move it into a concrete pillar.
No its not and they did have the tools to do the job. Some smooth brain said close the valve and make it up when that is one million percent not what you do. You make the valve up on a joint (when the well is blowing hard enough you can't make it up by hand) leave the valve open, stab the joint make it up, run that joint in the hole close the valve wells under control. Anyone with even the slightest common sense would know you can't screw it together with the valve closed it'll just keep blowing the joint off cuz liquids don't compress. This was a millions times worse than it should be and it's everyone's fault especially if the consultant told them to close it and make it up. If I got told that I'd do it my way, and when his bosses showed up I'd tell them I'm either rigging down or getting a competent consultant out there who knows wtf to do, his boss would get an earful for making them attempt that asinine maneuver
I've never run a rig but I've repaired most of the machinery on one. Lots of ways to die or get hurt out there but the root cause analysis usually starts with Stupid.
For some reason i read "weather causing danger blow out to well" and was like what the hell? But holy shit im so glad i watched this, worst blow out ive seen.
spur2626 I think they have a tubing valve (TIW) on the joint but it sounds like the guy in the truck says it's closed so they would never get the joint stabbed on the stump to close it. Very poor rig skills lmao
The TI is installed (and shut, totally against SOP) thats why the back pressure blew the joint back out of the stump, the force of the stream acting on the closed TI, an open TI valve would have directed the stream up away from the rig floor level, so the tong hand could have made the connection. This shit is hardcore failure on Floorhand/Driller 101, TI is NEVER stored shut and that joint should never have been hoisted into position with out the TI being visually verified to be open.
i mean is a heavy and danger job .and the problem is that when people know you are working in the oil fiel are drilling rigs. they think your making alots of money. when your not.floor hands should make 2500 per week motors 3000 derricks 4000 drillers 6000. 40 hours only .past that doble pay
Was the TI closed and on top of the hanging joint? Very stupid. But service rigs doing shit like that should have a second TI handy just for these situations
You can barely see what's happening while being shot in vertical mode. When will people embrace the technology of shooting in horizontal (wide-angle) and give us all a break?
o nooo, not my bubble, anything but bursting my bubble, obviously that is sweet crude in the video ya worm,, i meant to put also in the sentence giving another example of why yellow liquids might be flowing from a well.I mean no hate tho, damn that looks like some nice high api, low sulfur oil, im around much darker in canada, howd the rest of that day go lol. did you regain control of well soon after.
Good guys ! Weatherford should be proud of these guys for trying!!! If anyone should be fired it should be the girls in the truck giggling and talking about what you should do to stop it. Snowflakes ❄️
It’s not always flammable. Could have been an injection well. This is actually pretty funny. If you worked in the industry you would get it. The crew is not risking there lives. They are risking eye injuries. This was not a major problem
@@nickl2268 lol yeah bud i get it. First comment made no sense. It’s obviously not an injection well with a pumping unit sitting right there lol 🤦🏼♂️ i will say after a year of flipping burgers i now can do fries as well... well played
There's no B.O.P. on the tubing. You would have to install a T.I.W. (Texas Iron Works) valve in the tubing at first detection or after the blowout has subsided. You can't get one stabbed as it's blowing.
Amee Elliott well looks like there's a pump jack right there so the well was already producing so there's pressure cause that's oil coming out they always rig up a bop worked very close to these guys doing pressure control
Ha ha umm the well head is over there on the ground. Lol your off to the next job if you panic and close the BOP on something this insignificant. I guarantee they eventually realized there inside BOP valve was closed. They opened it stabbed the pipe made it up and shut the valve. Well under control. Pump on it for a few hours then back to tripping. I was just surprised the inside BOP Easton the rig floor.
lol, just set there next time anything like that happens and if it catches fire you film your selves laughing your ass's off. Literally burned off. LOL.
No well is worth your life. I can tell a good hand by how fast they run away when shit like this happens. These wells are insured and the guys who own them would rather have it blow than you get killed. Remember, this is not your well. Shut it in if you can, but recognize when to bail. These guys are lucky it didn't spark. I'm a company man in West Texas. I've seen this happen before and applauded my hands for getting out quickly. The well will subside eventually. You shut it in and start cleaning up. It happens. And for all the tough guys shit talking, your drawers would look like that well in this situation.
What the hell does the environment have to do with it? The planet will be fine - it doesn't need any damned environmentalists telling folks what they should not do.
Cry more
I am thinking. And what I am thinking is that you are a whiny bitch.
but they are dumb fuck idiots that think that the rig is their life and will do anything to keep their jobs.
wefreebefree so you dont consume ANY petroleum byproducts? hypocrite...
Yeah imma have to use my stop work authority on this😂😒
Yeah man I used mine when my lel was going off near the wellhead, on a bop failure blowout I’m running and I’ll come back later
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Don't be a shithead. Is that tong power unit still running. And why is this so funny. You don't send the guy up. You drop the joint joint down and then close.
Hahah first thing you learn on a good crew is that you never put the stabbing valve away closed. To save time and not have to open it during a blowout
Correct
Or it blowing tf off as soon as you try to stab it. Arguing with some guy who said "why don't they close the bop and divert the oil through the manifold" he claims to be an engineer and he'd eat me for breakfast with how smart he is... lmfao looks like someone failed well control school. Which I know he's lying cuz he claim I don't know whats going on even though I've been in that exact situation? I wasn't there idk what's going on lol ahh I love youtube consultants.. watch a couple videos and think they understand the oilfield
And those clowns in the truck are who to the job? If one of them is a company man he needs a slap upside the head, no clue about well control. In 13 years of consulting I've never had a well get out of hand and in the slightest showing of a kick you get your ass out there and use what your supposed to have for experience and get shit under control before shit like this happens, and to laugh about it?
You are a worm
Brandon Duet chuckle chuckle hyuk hyuk you worm
Cog everything.
@@morganneals1163 you're*
Consultant??? Couldn't keep a regular job with a regular company?
I dont think its a laughable situation. Those men on the floor are playing with devil and should play safe. No well is worth a life. That pressure could easily blew off someones head.
They're all very lucky to be alive.
Zain your dead on, I fracked in Alberta and BC its dangerous. Nothing is more dangerous then driving in shitty weather. You have not worked in the oil patch if you have not almost died driving awake for 18 hours 😴
I think the pressure is the lest of their worries, I think it's the fact that their near gas that can explode, just with some friction and that rig will blowup
@@skylarleaureaux2925 yes the pressure is the least of the problem. One static electricity shock and everything wet with that shit is now on fire. Big Big Big fire... If they live through it they're gonna wish they didn't and everything with in a 30' diameter of that wellhead is going to be cooked to complete destruction.
@@colinbrown9044 I houred out driving on the way to peace river and vividly remember watching my coworker/roommate/dear friend slap the living shit out of his face for 2 hours to get us home in one piece. I was awake but legally was off the road for 72hrs but not Aaron, so they sent us to a 10hr job 4 hours drive each way🤣
I never had a problem with the weather, but being a wellhead guy I'd load my truck before I went home, get to the shop early and charge out for a safe drive.
Definitely many times beyond my comfort level though.
I do miss most of that sometimes.
What is the yellow stuff?
God bless the brothers trying to stop the flow risking there souls. unlike the two BOZOS in the truck. pendejos C/S/R
There is no god to bless anyone... sorry. I'll just send thoughts.
Y bien pendejos
Would you still god bless them if it would have caught fire and burned them alive trying to save a billionaires well. And all the company would have told their wives is sorry for your loss. He WAS a great worker. I hate a company man that doesn't own a share in the fukkin company
You all are ignorant.
I'd bet money that everyone in this video no longer works at Weatherford.
Nah it's all on the driller for not having his crew prepared
Ya but also this was 2015. A lot of people got laid off around that time. Including me.
Company man prob got laid off, if the tool hand wasnt there to supervise, he is prob gone as well. At the end of the day, when you have a well that could possibly take a lick, there should always be a set of shears in one of the double BOP'S
@@coltendixon1782 That's a workover rig. The drilling was done.
@@seanwatts8342 doesn't mean that the guy on the handle can't be called a driller
Just listen to the women laughing safely in the truck.
Yep, really big help!
I'm trying to figure out how that amount of pressure is blowing out of a well that needed a pump jack before the work over rig showed up. Is that fracking fluid blowing out? Wtfidunno.
Ryan, It's a good possibility the well was freshly fracked within a couple of days.The whole picture we watched is exactly what a frac blowout looks like that is out of control. Oil mixed with natural gas mixed with frac water. The same look as ones I have been on. They let it get away from them. A blow out has a progressive start leading into where the clip started at. SOP is make sure well stays killed or is on a vacuum. There is always a kill truck or reverse unit on location with heavy fluid transports to feed the kill truck or reverse unit. As soon as well loses vacuum or air starts coming up, on goes the TIW valve and pumping equipment hooked to it. Most Pulling Units or rigs I have been on has a 3 or 4 foot tall TIW to hook up quickly and get the kill truck or reverse unit on it to put it back on a vacuum. They probably were trying to utilize a reverse units swivel on top of tubing but the gamble didn't pay off as they didn't get it hooked up fast enough.
@@RadioSupere was this a situation where they milled out a bridge plug after frac with air/mist(under balanced) and the float sub failed? Looks like a quickie flow back to me. Blowouts happen REAL fast in that situation....frac managers can only bow their heads to the oilfield sprites when the producers asses get mono from the onsite company men.
@@gqoniefh Generally when drilling out a bridge plug, or any plug for that matter they have a reverse unit hooked up to handle any kick they may get. If they are expecting pressure, they'll have a sevice company on location that can handle higher pressures and rate. It looks to me like they weren't paying attention to how the well was acting or it took them too long to hook up to kill it and they got bit. And/or they didn't pump enough kill fluid the last time the hooked up to kill it.
@@RadioSupere so the "blowout" here is thru tubing rather than up the backside(and the tubing isn't blowing out-maybe pipe rams have been closed). They couldn't have been using water to drill out a bridge plug when that happened. Hydrostatic head is too high. They HAD to be using air compressors with a mist pump or CNG with a mist pump to drill out a bridge and the float sub either didn't exist in the BHA or it simply failed while breaking through it into the previously fracked zone. If they were tripping out and the well blew out it would have done it through the annulus. Not up the tubing. Anyway I'm curious how it turned out. Wonder if the frac job was all blown back out. And with that much pressure/volume sandblast the tubing in half somewhere down hole?
@@gqoniefh The pipe rams are closed for sure, if they weren't, no way those dudes would be on the platform. I read somwhere in the comments they thought they were dealing with casing. Here's a scenario for you, one I've been on a few times. They are PTA-ing a well but want to recover some pipe (casing in this example) they make sure the well is static (dead) then shoot it off where they want to start pulling, no tools, nothing to stop any kind of flow except to put a fitting on top of casing to hook some type of pumping equipment. So they pull up a few joints up past a previous production zone that maybe wasn't producing much anymore and they squeezed it off with cement years ago. Well, pulling the pipe messed up the deteriorating sq. job and that formation, that production zone came in on them. Probably just a bridged off or plugged off zone. I've went out to PTA a well that had been shut in for 8 years. When we opened the backside we had solid crude under pressure looking at us. A couple of frac tanks were ordered and hooked up to the well and then opened up to the tanks. 4000 bbls of crude was recovered. They decided not to PTA the well. For the pipe to not spaghetti all around location it would have to have had a closed valve on it. You need a weighted fluid to kill a well and pump pressure if too much pressure is associated with the blowout. You'd be suprised at some of the monstrous looking blowouts that took hardly any effort at all to kill them. Your right if they had the correct tools in the BHA it would have been strictly annular but if not it'll be comming up both. I doubt if that frac job, if it is a frac job blew back out. It looks like it did some good, there is oil in the blow back. I doubt sanblast the tubing in half but a bad set tool or fitting of some sort, for sure.
Had the experience of working for the Red Adair co. for quite some time.Never understood why we would get there,the crew 5-7 hands would have perished. Back off call a well control company.We worked mostly in pairs, teamwork was always #2(safety) #1.
You probably recognize the names of me and my ex.. Matthew's (me) not my blood name. And the ex was a Hansen. Still got the stickers to back it up. Lol!
Wild mustard well...... the guys are risking everything for your hot dogs folk !!!
They obviously have no idea how much danger they are in.
James Vignali but I’m making $35/ hour, who cares about safety, environmental, life & limb, etc etc.
(Clear and present sarcasm)
Good ol Weatherford Mafia safety training duh!
Why didnt the bop shutin?
The most worthless guys are the ones recording
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I used to run a rig around there and that’s a everyday thing, we used to dig a big hole for the oil to go in and we would run pipe and just let it blow, we wouldn’t stop until we set our packer then we shut it down. If you shut it in then you have to kill the well.
worked in a field with water flood. most of the time the wells weren't under control just out of balance on the side you needed it to be . usually flowing on the other side.
why is the oil/gas a green/yellow colour? Sulphur?
when I was hauling crude to the rail from wells, they would charge you 10k in fines if you spilled anything over a 5 gallon bucket of crude. Then have a clean up crew come dig the dirt up and take it to a French well for disposals. Which you paid for also.
But here is thousands of gallons spraying every where.
a lot less fluid than you think mostly gas. i did see a well blow out of 7 " casing over the crown for 45 minutes.
One flare stack on a lease next door to the one I was on was deafeningly loud. Fighter jet, afterburner loud.
Flame was 50-75' long and there was an equal gap from the stack to the flare...ZERO snow left on that lease and not much on ours at below -40.
It burned like that for days, this amount is nothing.
@@obtuseangler768when I was a gas well testing we were working up in Northern British Columbia we were testing these wells they were flowing 45 Million cubic feet of gas per day they were open hole 9" casing with no tubing the initial shut-in pressures were about 3,200 PSI and by the time we were done flowing them it would clean itself up (get rid of fluid or send the is at the bottom) and we would shut them in and be almost at 4,000 PSI insane wells absolute monsters usually the pressure is drop after flowing them they don't increase our company built brand new custom high pressure high volume P-tanks that were good for 750 lb of back pressure when normal ones are rated for 100 lb our flow line was rated for 10,000 lb we had a 100-foot flare stack we would flow the wells for only 6 hours in 6 hours we figured that we flared off enough gas to supply the whole town of Spruce Grove Alberta for one whole winter and with that 100-foot flare stack in 6 hours we would melt almost all the snow and muskeg on the whole location to where you're walking in mud almost up to your knees it would take three days to let the location freeze over again so we could get trucks in to move our equipment to the next location but the best part was you couldn't keep anything on any counters you put a cup down you could watch it literally walk off the table like it was to the point where it was almost blurring your vision like if you sit in the car with a big stereo talking was out of the question you can hear anything so we basically had to do everything by hand signals or write it down and we were breaking the sound barrier it sounded like a fighter jet 20 miles away they could hear the noise of the flare breaking the sound barrier
that was just the most insanely awesomest experience i've ever had in my life and I wish I could do it again it was such an adrenaline rush it humbles you and gives you such a respect for mother nature after seeing something like that. 🔥⭐😎👍🔥
I'm new I don't know what to do!!
Run..LIKE YOU STOLE SOMETHING...TELL WHOEVER GETS MAD AT YOU TO KISS YOUR SAFETY FIRST ASS!
i don't know so much about this job, but what about the BOP?
Ander BOP's are for closing the annulus not the tubing
Blow out preventer right below the floor. Diverts the pressure and closes the well.
The bop here would only seal around the tubing/casing. The casing itself would need to be sealed with a TIW valve which they were trying to do here but the valve needs to be opened before you stab it in the well. Once you screw the valve in you can close it and seal the tubing/casing. The valve these guys had was up in the air on another section of pipe in the closed position so they couldn't install it without the pressure from the well blowing it out of the way. Poor preparation on behalf of the rig operator to not confirm the TIW is in the opened position.
Stu W that’s what shear rams are for..
@@Jordy-kk1kw land based work over rigs like this one would rarely if ever have shear rams in their bops
much easier to stab the open valve at floor level. no way to stab a closed valve even with the weight of a joint to help. the well is blowing way too hard. enviromentally if there isn't saltwater with the oil and gas could kill some vegetation but most would come back from the roots. untreated crude oil is more of a fertilizer.
Are u guys going to clean that up?
H2S no ??
Wow the were honestly trying to make up the joint with the inside BOP closed? No way!! Wow.
Is this what leads up to an explosion if it can't be controlled?
Yes. This is what's called a blowout, and it's oil and gas rushing out of the well at high pressure.
The fuck y'all working over, that's a flowin well boys!
Why did they have BOP on it
Why they trynna make a connection instead of putting the TIW in.
All you need is a ironroughneck and a ball valve joint, you can secure this well in 2 mins
I'm gonna have to say I'm one of those Dudes That would have Kept Trying and not abandon my guys and get some well control . Some of us don't give up or run . We are to Stupid 💪🤠
One thing I learned about rigs the tool push and consultant are scared as piss during a kick!
what is the yellow gas or liquid that is blowing out ?
Jesse James Emulsion
Why is it green?
Is that gas?
Unreal. This kinda stuff happen very often on service rigs?
Ridiculous oilfield shit in general is why this guy said being a level 2 wellhead tech wasn't really worth it.
Level 3 is offshore, which is a while different ballgame.
A $10k -15k wellhead we'd build in 2 or 3 hours for land costs well over a $mil and takes over a month.
How a rig costing 50k+ a day, taking 4 months to drill a duster wants to save $1500 by not having trained professionals come install a tubing hanger.
Wtf is wrong with people.
I've had to kick everyone off lease except for the airhand, service rig push and the chemical firetruck while we froze a well with nitro to fix a 8psi 9% well.
Just too many bad stories💩
Powder blasting is way more fun and honest...you can't pass a poorly loaded hole off on someone else. The blast speaks for itself everytime.
Stay safe everyone🤘
This a f’ing tough work, for young guys , great money but also a high risk of injury too
Why did they not think about pumping water to kill it ? I’m sure it is sitting at 350 psi right
You would need to attach pumping equipment onto the casing stump through the TIW valve but they could not install the valve because it was in the closed position up in the air
it’s green like money toooo!! how do they stop it??
Close the blind rams on the BOP
So not sure about this well but out here in SoCal we would run a three piece Blow Out Preventer (BOP). It would consist of an annular on top. Pipe rams in the middle and blind rams on bottom. The annular was a big hydrulic bag that when filled would seal around the pipe. Used most of the time during breaks or meal periods. The pipe rams were hydraulic cylinders that would clamp steel jaws with seals around the pipe. Change these to match pipe size. Last on bottom would be your blind rams that were just steel plates that would shear the pipe in the hole and seal the well. Close those and call a fishing company lol. Here they would also need an inside BOP. They could have had the vale open and throw it on thread it tight then slowly close the valve. These guys were just untrained and unprepared. Eventually the pressure will go down or the pump heavy water to displace it.
Tiw valve. Valve was closed on top. Should have been open. The big guy in the truck went out in his boxers. Had them open the TIW aloft, stabbed the joint, made it up and then a guy went up with tugger and harness the closed it... Pumped on it for awhile and killed the well again. The big guy is snack bar and he is the guy who got it taken care of. The company man was a mile away first chance he had...
B&K's Domain thanks for the response.
what was that? water?
Bakken sweet crude
now thats a god damn rig hand right there he wasnt going to give up.
Timothy Hatridge make a hand🖒
Timothy Hatridge that’s beau Hershberger for you
That's a god damn idiot is what that is
ok experts
How much money went up in air in this video?
$2
Do you know?
Part 2, where's it?
Was this recorded with a schu-350?
Great publicity for Weatherford, the only service company that sucks more than Weatherford is Baker Hughes.
TejasTigre2012 opinions
Out of curiosity, why is it yellow-green?
I don't fully know how workover rigs work but my best guess is chemical to stimulate the flow of the well by the workover rig and/or chemicals added between competition and workover rig job. Edit: I didn't want to give you the wrong answer before consulting. The green chem is actually crude oil.
It’s not oil, it’s condensate. More valuable than oil.
What are they drilling for? Is that oil that has a die added to it or is that just the video making it look greenish?
Chandler Johnson they’re running casing not drilling, an thats pure gas that’s why its greenish
Sweet crude has a greenish tint. Some even reddish. Not all oil is black Some looks like Kerosene right out the gate
that mud is WBM right?
김송 that is crude not mud
김송 By the color of it looks like condensate... very light oil and more appt to catch on fire. If you held some of it in a clear glass against sunlight you'd be able to see through it. Crude oil comes in many different colors.
ABO Oklahoma sweet
Imagine a world where oil companies have a crap about the people who actually pulled the stuff out of the ground? It's dangerous work because it's cheaper that way.
It’s a wonder that spray didn’t cut that guy in two. Wait for the pro’s that have the equipment and training... trying to move an emergency valve into a high-pressure stream laterally is like trying to move it into a concrete pillar.
There isn't enough pressure there to cut into your flesh. There's a lot but no where near that much.
Worse. Its like a concrete pillar with a powerfull repelling magnet on the other side
No its not and they did have the tools to do the job. Some smooth brain said close the valve and make it up when that is one million percent not what you do. You make the valve up on a joint (when the well is blowing hard enough you can't make it up by hand) leave the valve open, stab the joint make it up, run that joint in the hole close the valve wells under control.
Anyone with even the slightest common sense would know you can't screw it together with the valve closed it'll just keep blowing the joint off cuz liquids don't compress. This was a millions times worse than it should be and it's everyone's fault especially if the consultant told them to close it and make it up. If I got told that I'd do it my way, and when his bosses showed up I'd tell them I'm either rigging down or getting a competent consultant out there who knows wtf to do, his boss would get an earful for making them attempt that asinine maneuver
Talking shit from the truck "I work in the oilfield "
Why the fuck would they risk their lives? For what?
I've never run a rig but I've repaired most of the machinery on one. Lots of ways to die or get hurt out there but the root cause analysis usually starts with Stupid.
Why they dont turn the BOP on immediately?
It's coming out the unless they got got shear blinds the bops are useless
Out the tubing
My goodness, they hit Diet Mountain Dew !
Sweet crude is neon green?
Green oil when fresh
What is that green stuff blowing up in the air..!!! Did they hit an anti-freeze pocket...
ceedaddy no. It was a positive test for chlamitia
Haha.. Just goes to show you cant go putting your drill bit in just any hole...
If they can't make that stand up how the fuck are they gonna get the tiw value on...or is it different on workover?
Not funny. Real mans doing real work !
Why does you black dot look so weird when scrolling
whats coming out of the well?
Its crude, it comes in all colors I've heard.
Natural gas condensate. Seen it from almost clear to light brown but usually its florescent yellow.
Where's the b.o.p?
For some reason i read "weather causing danger blow out to well" and was like what the hell? But holy shit im so glad i watched this, worst blow out ive seen.
This is nothing compared to others I’ve seen!
Deep water horizon.
Is this Colorado?
North Dakota oil boom days
Why are they trying to make up another stand of tubing, instead of getting a TIW valve stabbed in and shut the damn thing in?
spur2626 I think they have a tubing valve (TIW) on the joint but it sounds like the guy in the truck says it's closed so they would never get the joint stabbed on the stump to close it. Very poor rig skills lmao
For weight
Excuse my ignorance, not much of my time is spent on workover rigs. Why are they not using the TIW?
The TI is installed (and shut, totally against SOP) thats why the back pressure blew the joint back out of the stump, the force of the stream acting on the closed TI, an open TI valve would have directed the stream up away from the rig floor level, so the tong hand could have made the connection. This shit is hardcore failure on Floorhand/Driller 101, TI is NEVER stored shut and that joint should never have been hoisted into position with out the TI being visually verified to be open.
i mean is a heavy and danger job .and the problem is that when people know you are working in the oil fiel are drilling rigs. they think your making alots of money. when your not.floor hands should make 2500 per week motors 3000 derricks 4000 drillers 6000. 40 hours only .past that doble pay
So there’s not a BOP ?
why is it green
Bakken sweet crude
And fresh
WTF, I don't fully know how workover rigs actually work but I'm pretty sure that's not it and not well bravado is worth anyone's life.
Ladies and gentlemen this is why men earned more than womne
Was the TI closed and on top of the hanging joint? Very stupid.
But service rigs doing shit like that should have a second TI handy just for these situations
Doyle Skyler thanks captain obvious
B&K's Domain that's one ugly ass kid you got in the pic there.
Jose Martinez lmao
Doyle Skyler well least the valve was closed lol
Im gonna have to stop the job guys....Stop The Job!!!
Call Wild Well Control!
You can barely see what's happening while being shot in vertical mode. When will people embrace the technology of shooting in horizontal (wide-angle) and give us all a break?
Just a spark and they would be no longer laughing
The fucking beast is awake
HS2 danger?
that's sweet crude. Little to no H2S more than likely.
OK. Thanks. I saw the yellow tint to the oil and thought that it was sulfur.
a yellow or orange color like that can be produced from a mix of a oil,gas and or saltwater that comes up from the formation
Sorry to burst your bubble but like amee said it is sweet crude
o nooo, not my bubble, anything but bursting my bubble, obviously that is sweet crude in the video ya worm,, i meant to put also in the sentence giving another example of why yellow liquids might be flowing from a well.I mean no hate tho, damn that looks like some nice high api, low sulfur oil, im around much darker in canada, howd the rest of that day go lol. did you regain control of well soon after.
Surely a safety stand with stab valve made up using cross overs at the bottom and open should be ready to go always.
It is always ready to go, and don’t call me shirley
I miss the patch....
no ti valve wtf
Dam that's scary as hell
Don't start that truck......that looks like high grav condensate and In 30 years offshore. I'd never seen a well uncontrolled like that. Thank GOD!
Need to open the T.I. b4 u attempt to make a connection under that kind of pressure
Good guys ! Weatherford should be proud of these guys for trying!!! If anyone should be fired it should be the girls in the truck giggling and talking about what you should do to stop it. Snowflakes ❄️
Good ol snack bar got er pegged and plugged.... in in gol dang underwear lol
thks god didnt ignite
It’s not always flammable. Could have been an injection well. This is actually pretty funny. If you worked in the industry you would get it. The crew is not risking there lives. They are risking eye injuries. This was not a major problem
@@ryanburbridge not flammable...LOL. Thats bakken crude coming out of that well...notflammable?? hahaha ooooooooook stick to flippin burgers bro
@@nickl2268 lol yeah bud i get it. First comment made no sense. It’s obviously not an injection well with a pumping unit sitting right there lol 🤦🏼♂️ i will say after a year of flipping burgers i now can do fries as well... well played
Not worth human lives can’t believe those guys actually are tryin to get it under of control that’s too much pressure get out of there
No clue ... especially the people in the truck, just embarrassing!
I bet it took him 2 goddamn weeks with q tips to get that shit out of his ears
Dirty work clean money
If someone doesn’t understand what there watching here someone could have or did lose a family member after the video cut off
close valve then the string comes out of the hole
Somebody forgot the BOP . . . .
Is that actually dangerous man?
Google inside bop or TIW valve. No it’s not dangerous
Extremely dangerous. That was upwind of a flare pit
Where the fuck is the stabbin valve?
B.O.P !???? Close
There's no B.O.P. on the tubing. You would have to install a T.I.W. (Texas Iron Works) valve in the tubing at first detection or after the blowout has subsided. You can't get one stabbed as it's blowing.
Amee Elliott well looks like there's a pump jack right there so the well was already producing so there's pressure cause that's oil coming out they always rig up a bop worked very close to these guys doing pressure control
Dude, it's blowing out of the tubing. And you always shut in the tubing first.
whatever worm
Better to be a worm than a diabetic, 450 pound lard ass.
Sind die tatsaechlich zu blöd so ein kleines Loch zu verschliessen???????????
close the damn wellhead!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It ain't that easy. Wish it was...
Amee Elliott
True
Can't shut we'll head with pipe in hole.
Ha ha umm the well head is over there on the ground. Lol your off to the next job if you panic and close the BOP on something this insignificant. I guarantee they eventually realized there inside BOP valve was closed. They opened it stabbed the pipe made it up and shut the valve. Well under control. Pump on it for a few hours then back to tripping. I was just surprised the inside BOP Easton the rig floor.
You can't shut it in with tubing in the wellbore. I would have been gone. Fuck that well. Those boys haven't been properly trained.
very danger, he must abandon the fllor & secured well
Well go out there and tell them!!!!!
I would be hauling ass out of there.
lol, just set there next time anything like that happens and if it catches fire you film your selves laughing your ass's off. Literally burned off. LOL.