Safety Alert
Safety Alert 103 - Blowout
Safety Alert 103 - Blowout
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 103
- Hydrocarbon ReleaseProcess Safety
- FireHydrocarbon releaseWell control
- Drilling
- Blowout preventerValve
- Operating and work procedures
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
A Gulf of Mexico drilling blowout flowed through the drill string rather than the annulus. An inadvertently open fill-up valve and inaccessible lower kelly cock feature in the account; gas ignited and one fatality followed evacuation. The alert recommends immediate valve closure after pressure checks and accessible kelly positioning where possible.
Classifications: Fire; fire safety.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Well control; kick control; loss of well control.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Blowout preventer; BOP; blow-out preventer.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The alert addresses a blowout involving uncontrolled well fluids.
BSEE Safety Alert 103. Themes: hydrocarbon release, process safety.