Safety Alert
Safety Alert 152 - Circulating with Natural Gas Through Coil Tubing
Safety Alert 152 - Circulating with Natural Gas Through Coil Tubing
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 152
- Hydrocarbon ReleasePressure SystemsProcess Safety
- Hydrocarbon releasePressure systemsRegulation and legislation
- Well intervention
- Operating and work procedures
- Upstream oil and gas
Summary
This notice warns against circulating natural gas through coil tubing to bring an oil well into production. Minerals Management Service considers natural gas lifting incompatible with Section 250.46, citing the potential for high-pressure gas release into the workplace following tubing or equipment failure.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Regulation and legislation; safety legislation; regulatory requirements.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
BSEE Safety Alert 152. Themes: hydrocarbon release, pressure systems, process safety.