No matter what equipment failed, a blowout can only occur when a sequence of human errors/omissions have taken place. ALL blowouts are the result of incompetence, either in planning, execution, logistics or all three.
Humans can not contain mother nature. I'm a Derrick hand on work over rigs. I can tell you right now. Even People with degrees.. can't always solve it. Earth is always moving. Pressure is always changing
Anyone else here thinking ‘if I heard a sound like that coming from a drilling rig ...you better not get in my way as I egress the premises with extreme prejudice...’
..so im a complete novice, im just researching into the oil/gas industry because i'm planning on applying for a course in scotland that will hopefully lead me to work on offshore oil rigs. would anyone be able to explain what exactly is happening? i know (i think) that the blow off point has not held as it should and now there is nothing stopping the oil/gas flowing to the surface....but how do you stop this once the BOP has failed?
Im sorry these fellas don't make enough money... Watch your 12 guyZ God Bless you all for what you do. That crap freaks me out. I fly EMS helicopters in Northern Louisianna, I will stick to flying any day...
The frack for oil too. Matter a fact I'm working on two wells getting fracked in ND starting in a couple days. There is not really anything in most the fracks. Most of the time it's just water and sand. That's about it.
Allmost. they have to mix a slurry (gel) that will get the sand downhole with out sanding off, also it helps the sand pack will pack into the fractures with pressures and stay there when they flow back the well. Lots of fun 😊 This is just addition to what you wrote😊
@@rondumontier1187 Wow, this is an old one. Been out of the loop a few years, but at the time of my posting this "slick water" was all the rage. I did wireline, so was not deeply involved with frac side of the operation. Just went off what I was told. My understanding of slick water was that it was mostly water and sand with some friction inhibitor. Then at the end of the stage, they pumped a gel plug to clean the pipe all the way down into the zone. Then we went in to plug and perf for the next one. I am sure things have changed a fair bit from then. And every host company did things a little different. Even when working the same formation. Some companies did the same guns every well. Some changed things up from one zone to the next. Different gun counts with different charges and phasing. There is definitely no hard and fast rule on how to do a well. Lots of experimentation, at least back then.
The Blow Out Preventor (BOP) will have at least 2 sets of shut in Rams (Blind Rams & Pipe Rams) under the rig floor that should activate hydraulically to shut in the well, when that fails they can be turned manually, looks like this was attempted in the video but also failed. If the top drive has the proper nipple in it to attach to the pipe, it can be forced down onto the well and screwed in; kill fluid could then be pumped back down, this should have been done at the initial onset of the kick
how many BOPs did this right have? shouldn't it of had a choke line, pipe ram, kill line and a blooie line to help prevent it? sorry im studying to be a petroleum geologist and they require us to know this, so im just curious
Closer in around 9:00, it looks like that stuff is coming out the ground faster than whatever comes out of a jet’s tailpipe on after burner. .. More like what the remote cameras picked up as those big F-1 Rocket engines lit up on the Saturn V.
It's exactly like that!...Man I miss that sound!,Blow out preventer should always be checked before setting up along with the accumelator,all fluids and pressures checked.
You just described many of the chemicals and compounds found naturally in the pay zones of the oil and gas fields!! Its funny how now one will drink crude oil but they complain about the oil companies pumping frac fluid ( mostly diesel or water depending on the type of frac) into the oil & gas payzones. Like complaining about putting bleach in the toilet, yet your not drinking from the toilet either. BTW- Frac fluid is not left in the well, its flowed back to surface and disposed of.
Firstly, not every frac is the same so your point is mute. Another important fact is this, many of the chemicals used (including the acid) are not frac'd, they are instead pumped down the drill pipe to do a wash and held at the formation to clean it, it is then purjed with water and brought back to surface before the fluid to be fracked is pumped down. Now the frac fluid is then pumped into the OIL RESERVOIR , someplace you wouldn't drink from anyway.
Yabbut _why_ didn't the BOP work properly? Too few BOPs in use? Inadequate rating? Lack of maintenance? Incorrect operation? The BOP didn't wake up one morning and think to itself, "today's the day I'm gonna F with the humans"
yes not enough hydraulic horsepower for a frac. seems like they were trying to kill it when the sound changed and more fluid in the flow stream.when the oil company we worked for first started fracing the bakken we had our rig rigged up. wire line a plugged packer after the frac we ran tubing in spaced out treed up pumped out the packer plug then flow back. later they would just flow back through the 7 inch. then after blowing a hole in the 7 inch and pumping the whole frac out at 3,000 ft .they started using frac strings.
you know the quantities of these to the over all composition are so minute that you would not experience any adverse health affects unless you were drinking gallons of this a week. It's like if you were to take high concentrated weed killer and pour a tea spoon in a 500 gallon tank of water. You wouldn't even tell the difference if you drank it.
have you ever LOOKED at the contents of the containers under the kitchen sink? Some are extremely toxic, to say the least - and some at very low levels. There's a fair bit (well, a lot, actually) of BS on fracing from both sides of the arguement and, so far, I'm right in the middle.
A kick can happen faster than you think....land drilling is extremely dangerous even with the right equipment, a kick only gives the derick hand and driller a few seconds to deal with the problem.
And again there is absolutely no way that there can ever be pollution to surrounding piping infrastructure that supplies fresh water to neighborhoods because to the slight chance one of these pipes has a hole permitting said pollution the pollutant ie hydrocarbon fluids will never see it because there is a casing that extends at least a few hundred below the surface that is several feet thick that specifically eliminates this from happening. It simply is not feasible.
And there is over a mile of solid rock and concrete between a gas well and any water well, sounds like fracing is still safer than your kitchen sink, are you throwing our your kitchen sink yet?
Is that the sound of the gas escaping the well? I imagine that when seen in person it must be very impressive. Wish I could experience something like that one day.
In the mega blockbuster hit..... That guy has ruined me now because all of Segal's movies are free on UA-cam right now and I laugh every time I see one.
If they had the right nipple up company to rig up there bop maybe they would have. Told Them to use The right blind rams. It looks like maybe the rams wouldn't close or maybe they where using the wrong Rams they should be using Blind Rams it could cut the pipe n half then. Close the hole...
what you do is, you get the fuck out of there and wait till the worst is over. pray that it doesnt set fire. cant fix the stack after you take a kick, run away...
Obviously you have been watching to many government exploited videos over frac jobs. First of all there is no such thing as a gas pocket, any hydrocarbon in reservoirs is contained in microscopic pore spaces within in the rock structure. There's no cavern underground filled with fluids. Second frac jobs do not force anything to the surface, all fracing does is stimulate the surrounding rock media immediately around the well, so as to permit flow of the fluid to the surface with less restriction
Fracking is what they do to get natural gas from the ground, by injecting mass quantities of the fluid into natural gas pockets to force it to the surface, the side effect is fracking fluid in peoples wells and natural gas being forced up their pipes as well.
You drill shallow water wells? Otherwise if You don't test your BOPS daily someones setting themselves up for a large fine. I wouldn't work for a company that could care less about the crews lives?
One more thing - I lead a group that has a 100% success rate at stopping drilling in the city where I live. We ran the world's largest oil and gas company out of town, along with several smaller ones, and we did it by presenting true and provable facts that demonstrated the level of false information being fed to our city officials by the industry. I am an engineer with a vast and profound knowledge of this subject matter. Your assumptions, like your "facts", are as wrong as they can be.
Yes.....I can see where "12footstroke" is correct. I think what "Ahrorbek Aminjonov" was suggesting preventive measure.....things that should have been addressed further up on the line.
Most frac fluid is basically just diesel fuel; no you couldn't drink it, but neither would you drink the crude oil the frac fluid is being pumped int o would you. Its complaining about putting toilet cleaner in the toilet then complaining you don't want to drink it, it makes no sense. Why would want to drink from the toilet & why would you want to drink from the crude oil reservoir? There have so far been over 10 million successful fracs completed without any issues, so you are dead wrong!
Jesse s Yeah man because theres no danger at all of going up next to a blowout spewing oil, natural gas and sometimes H2S all over at thousands and thousands of pounds of pressure to save a bit of oil.
I can tell by your answer you work in only 1 area, is it CBM? Sounds like it. BTW - 95% of all statistics are made up on the spot, like YOU just did. Im not playing your game, I can prove EVERYTHING I state as fact because I have lived it the past 30 years. And I know those dead set against it are confused between what drilling is and what fracing is. Most environmental compaints are about the well completion yet they still spout fracing, and YOU my friend are one of those!
UM , NO. The ignorance about fracing is astounding! The chemicals are not different than what you find under your kitchen sink and most of them are petroleum based making them no more toxic than the brine water already found in natural gas wells, the amount of chemicals used are less than 1% of the volume used mixed with water. BTW - This well was not fraced recently.
"And there is over a mile of solid rock and concrete between a gas well and any water well?" Can you support that false claim with ANY kind of scientific proof at all? For your information, there is no concrete used in frac'ing operations. There is a grout-like cement that is used between casing pipes and the annulus of the well, but it is hardly "over a mile of solid rock and concrete" between a gas well and a water well. Your complete ignorance is showing.
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No matter what equipment failed, a blowout can only occur when a sequence of human errors/omissions have taken place. ALL blowouts are the result of incompetence, either in planning, execution, logistics or all three.
Nailed it!!!
Ya think all the folks that work on the rigs have masters degrees. It hard dangerous work.
Humans can not contain mother nature. I'm a Derrick hand on work over rigs. I can tell you right now. Even People with degrees.. can't always solve it. Earth is always moving. Pressure is always changing
Work-over rigs are commonly used to run a frac string but would normally run it to the side before rigging in the frac equipment.
Anyone else here thinking ‘if I heard a sound like that coming from a drilling rig ...you better not get in my way as I egress the premises with extreme prejudice...’
..so im a complete novice, im just researching into the oil/gas industry because i'm planning on applying for a course in scotland that will hopefully lead me to work on offshore oil rigs.
would anyone be able to explain what exactly is happening? i know (i think) that the blow off point has not held as it should and now there is nothing stopping the oil/gas flowing to the surface....but how do you stop this once the BOP has failed?
video does the situation no justice
Im sorry these fellas don't make enough money... Watch your 12 guyZ God Bless you all for what you do. That crap freaks me out. I fly EMS helicopters in Northern Louisianna, I will stick to flying any day...
wasted dinosaurs fart gas...
Have tried turning it off and back on?
Bop is manal if it doesn't work your fucked
somebody installed the bop upside down......
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha that's funny ha ha ha
The frack for oil too. Matter a fact I'm working on two wells getting fracked in ND starting in a couple days. There is not really anything in most the fracks. Most of the time it's just water and sand. That's about it.
Allmost. they have to mix a slurry (gel) that will get the sand downhole with out sanding off, also it helps the sand pack will pack into the fractures with pressures and stay there when they flow back the well. Lots of fun 😊
This is just addition to what you wrote😊
@@rondumontier1187 Wow, this is an old one. Been out of the loop a few years, but at the time of my posting this "slick water" was all the rage. I did wireline, so was not deeply involved with frac side of the operation. Just went off what I was told. My understanding of slick water was that it was mostly water and sand with some friction inhibitor. Then at the end of the stage, they pumped a gel plug to clean the pipe all the way down into the zone. Then we went in to plug and perf for the next one. I am sure things have changed a fair bit from then. And every host company did things a little different. Even when working the same formation. Some companies did the same guns every well. Some changed things up from one zone to the next. Different gun counts with different charges and phasing. There is definitely no hard and fast rule on how to do a well. Lots of experimentation, at least back then.
Those guys turning the handwheel earned their pay.
4 hands working....20 standing around.
The Blow Out Preventor (BOP) will have at least 2 sets of shut in Rams (Blind Rams & Pipe Rams) under the rig floor that should activate hydraulically to shut in the well, when that fails they can be turned manually, looks like this was attempted in the video but also failed. If the top drive has the proper nipple in it to attach to the pipe, it can be forced down onto the well and screwed in; kill fluid could then be pumped back down, this should have been done at the initial onset of the kick
Wow, thanks so much mr captain obvious. So glad u shared all that useless information to us UA-cam watchers
@@addlsu2083 What are you, 12?
@clay125 what do you suggest them to do??
@clay125 They certainly don't fix anything by not knowing "there" from "their."
how many BOPs did this right have? shouldn't it of had a choke line, pipe ram, kill line and a blooie line to help prevent it? sorry im studying to be a petroleum geologist and they require us to know this, so im just curious
Not back in those days.
Correct, the BOP has choke line, kill line, pipe ram, blind ram, etc. However, this it must be tested every 2 week to avoid this incident.
Nico Perez In Alberta EUB requires daily function testing as well as pressure and function testing prior to installation.
It´s correct, previous installation the funtion and test BOP must be performed. The peruvian law indicate 2 week the BOP stack must be tested.
Looks like a Franks Tri-scope.
So that would had fueled how many homes for how many years? Millions for life? Thousands for life?
A lot of times people panic and run past the controls and then claim they hit the BOP.
Closer in around 9:00, it looks like that stuff is coming out the ground faster than whatever comes out of a jet’s tailpipe on after burner. .. More like what the remote cameras picked up as those big F-1 Rocket engines lit up on the Saturn V.
It's exactly like that!...Man I miss that sound!,Blow out preventer should always be checked before setting up along with the accumelator,all fluids and pressures checked.
I need a job?
How do you even have a bop with no substructure under the Derrick..!!??
Looks like is just sitting on pontoons to me
You just described many of the chemicals and compounds found naturally in the pay zones of the oil and gas fields!! Its funny how now one will drink crude oil but they complain about the oil companies pumping frac fluid ( mostly diesel or water depending on the type of frac) into the oil & gas payzones. Like complaining about putting bleach in the toilet, yet your not drinking from the toilet either. BTW- Frac fluid is not left in the well, its flowed back to surface and disposed of.
Shouldn't there of been a frac valve on the stack too ? Just saying
Firstly, not every frac is the same so your point is mute. Another important fact is this, many of the chemicals used (including the acid) are not frac'd, they are instead pumped down the drill pipe to do a wash and held at the formation to clean it, it is then purjed with water and brought back to surface before the fluid to be fracked is pumped down. Now the frac fluid is then pumped into the OIL RESERVOIR , someplace you wouldn't drink from anyway.
YOU GOTTA JIGGLE THE HANDLE!
going to have to break down all that pipe to lay it down sideways to lift the floor to bolt a second working stack ontop of the first
When do service/ workover rig equipment ever work?
Hardly ever like it's supposed to. So many shortcuts sometimes
Its in the other pick up. That crew stopped at Mcdonald's, lol.
If you'd ever been near a blowout you would know you wouldn't have to wake anyone up!
Yabbut _why_ didn't the BOP work properly? Too few BOPs in use? Inadequate rating? Lack of maintenance? Incorrect operation?
The BOP didn't wake up one morning and think to itself, "today's the day I'm gonna F with the humans"
Look at all that money going bye bye.. Makes me want to cry!
There is a workover rig on the well. They are not fracing.
yes not enough hydraulic horsepower for a frac. seems like they were trying to kill it when the sound changed and more fluid in the flow stream.when the oil company we worked for first started fracing the bakken we had our rig rigged up. wire line a plugged packer after the frac we ran tubing in spaced out treed up pumped out the packer plug then flow back. later they would just flow back through the 7 inch. then after blowing a hole in the 7 inch and pumping the whole frac out at 3,000 ft .they started using frac strings.
you know the quantities of these to the over all composition are so minute that you would not experience any adverse health affects unless you were drinking gallons of this a week. It's like if you were to take high concentrated weed killer and pour a tea spoon in a 500 gallon tank of water. You wouldn't even tell the difference if you drank it.
have you ever LOOKED at the contents of the containers under the kitchen sink? Some are extremely toxic, to say the least - and some at very low levels.
There's a fair bit (well, a lot, actually) of BS on fracing from both sides of the arguement and, so far, I'm right in the middle.
How many pounds per square inch is the pressure? Sounds like a lot
A kick can happen faster than you think....land drilling is extremely dangerous even with the right equipment, a kick only gives the derick hand and driller a few seconds to deal with the problem.
O torrista não está na mesa?
prob forgot to change out the rams to accomidate a new drill string
Did the derrick man are still up there?
That was a few thousand tons of natural gas. I know they are looking for oil but there should be some collaboration to recover this wasted gas!
somehow I think the general consensus is that BOPs don't work well when gas is present?
THIS IS A VERY SERIOUS MESS!
That's got to be good for the atmosphere
And again there is absolutely no way that there can ever be pollution to surrounding piping infrastructure that supplies fresh water to neighborhoods because to the slight chance one of these pipes has a hole permitting said pollution the pollutant ie hydrocarbon fluids will never see it because there is a casing that extends at least a few hundred below the surface that is several feet thick that specifically eliminates this from happening. It simply is not feasible.
Opps. Time to get the power washer.
...and there are safety caps on those bottles under your sink for a reason.
where was this?
some times you get lucky and it will bridge over . '''Some times" !!!
RJ
no value for BOP once the pressure is out, very sad outcome .
Ok everybody draw straws for who has to wake up company man
Hope the derrickman is still not up there!
And there is over a mile of solid rock and concrete between a gas well and any water well, sounds like fracing is still safer than your kitchen sink, are you throwing our your kitchen sink yet?
Is that the sound of the gas escaping the well? I imagine that when seen in person it must be very impressive. Wish I could experience something like that one day.
Basically a supersonic choked gas jet. You FEEL it more than you hear it!
No you don't
@@gregclinton4358 yes I still do 9 years later. 😂😂
Well that pipe sure is blown clean after it ...
I work in brooks and i can confirm we dont test ours. I wish we did lol
Standing around is the way to fix it for some people I guess...
ahhh all the pipe is out....forget I said anything
Who needs well control?
Poor Derrickhand lol
Too bad Steven Seagal wasn’t there to blow the well up with TNT and walk away a hero.
In the mega blockbuster hit..... That guy has ruined me now because all of Segal's movies are free on UA-cam right now and I laugh every time I see one.
Guess the open flow!
Quick, someone plug it!
thats hy we test our shit in canada everyday or several times a day.
She is blowing and going
1 million Dollar ........2 million Dollar ....... eeeeeeeeaaahhhh : (
Where's a snubbing unit when you need one
we dont need a snubbing unit rigt now !!!
Deepwater Horizon....On land?
You want some of mother nature.
GOOBY QUICK TO THE DRILLING RIG.. There's been an Exblosion!!! lol
Are you a real person!
The CSB found.....
o.O
If they had the right nipple up company to rig up there bop maybe they would have. Told Them to use The right blind rams. It looks like maybe the rams wouldn't close or maybe they where using the wrong Rams they should be using Blind Rams it could cut the pipe n half then. Close the hole...
Now where did we put that stabbing valve?
anyone got a light please ??? ;
baker Hughes and Halliburton.
Anybody got a smoke
What’s wrong with it
Well at least it's not sour!!
what you do is, you get the fuck out of there and wait till the worst is over. pray that it doesnt set fire.
cant fix the stack after you take a kick, run away...
Nice problem to have
Obviously you have been watching to many government exploited videos over frac jobs. First of all there is no such thing as a gas pocket, any hydrocarbon in reservoirs is contained in microscopic pore spaces within in the rock structure. There's no cavern underground filled with fluids. Second frac jobs do not force anything to the surface, all fracing does is stimulate the surrounding rock media immediately around the well, so as to permit flow of the fluid to the surface with less restriction
Fracking is what they do to get natural gas from the ground, by injecting mass quantities of the fluid into natural gas pockets to force it to the surface, the side effect is fracking fluid in peoples wells and natural gas being forced up their pipes as well.
You drill shallow water wells? Otherwise if You don't test your BOPS daily someones setting themselves up for a large fine. I wouldn't work for a company that could care less about the crews lives?
killing this is going to be a bitch with no pipe in the well...
One more thing - I lead a group that has a 100% success rate at stopping drilling in the city where I live. We ran the world's largest oil and gas company out of town, along with several smaller ones, and we did it by presenting true and provable facts that demonstrated the level of false information being fed to our city officials by the industry. I am an engineer with a vast and profound knowledge of this subject matter. Your assumptions, like your "facts", are as wrong as they can be.
You ran Saudi ARAMCO out of town? 😊😊
And the know it alls say fracking is causing earthquakes, sure, we all know frack pressures cause over balance issues 😂😂
Earth farting due eating cappage
Earth is *queefing* in this video, "mother" nature.
N/UP BOP without testing
Why simply saying BOP has problem. Yes BOP should cut the pipe but what about mud engineer? What about drilling engineer?
+Ahrorbek Aminjonov Completion rigs and workover rigs do not typically use shear rams in the bop stack. pipe rams and blind rams are the norm.
Yes.....I can see where "12footstroke" is correct.
I think what "Ahrorbek Aminjonov" was suggesting preventive measure.....things that should have
been addressed further up on the line.
Most frac fluid is basically just diesel fuel; no you couldn't drink it, but neither would you drink the crude oil the frac fluid is being pumped int o would you. Its complaining about putting toilet cleaner in the toilet then complaining you don't want to drink it, it makes no sense. Why would want to drink from the toilet & why would you want to drink from the crude oil reservoir? There have so far been over 10 million successful fracs completed without any issues, so you are dead wrong!
What a waste of natural gas. Something can be done with it.
+Jesse s and a massive danger of an explosion
Samantha Willmer that's expected anyway, that's why they have safety precautions! Which has nothing to do with recovering this wasted gas!
+Jesse s Yeah, because they did it on purpose. SMH
Anthony Donker yep and all of that gas could be purposely bottled and consumed
Jesse s
Yeah man because theres no danger at all of going up next to a blowout spewing oil, natural gas and sometimes H2S all over at thousands and thousands of pounds of pressure to save a bit of oil.
It s a gusher It s a gusher
I can tell by your answer you work in only 1 area, is it CBM? Sounds like it. BTW - 95% of all statistics are made up on the spot, like YOU just did. Im not playing your game, I can prove EVERYTHING I state as fact because I have lived it the past 30 years. And I know those dead set against it are confused between what drilling is and what fracing is. Most environmental compaints are about the well completion yet they still spout fracing, and YOU my friend are one of those!
A more asinine and dishonest statement was never uttered!
man workover crews get mad when wirline gets the rig a bit dirty this is a little bit worse haha
A good trained experience eye would have prevented this hole F mess
UM , NO. The ignorance about fracing is astounding! The chemicals are not different than what you find under your kitchen sink and most of them are petroleum based making them no more toxic than the brine water already found in natural gas wells, the amount of chemicals used are less than 1% of the volume used mixed with water. BTW - This well was not fraced recently.
"And there is over a mile of solid rock and concrete between a gas well and any water well?" Can you support that false claim with ANY kind of scientific proof at all? For your information, there is no concrete used in frac'ing operations. There is a grout-like cement that is used between casing pipes and the annulus of the well, but it is hardly "over a mile of solid rock and concrete" between a gas well and a water well. Your complete ignorance is showing.
Smoke'em if ya got'em! WAIT!
got anyone a match :D
befor opret bop test fast
That’s illegal
LOL