Safety Alert
Safety Alert 18 - Well-Control Equipment Circumvention
Safety Alert 18 - Well-Control Equipment Circumvention
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 18
- Control of WorkProcess Safety
- Barrier managementHydrocarbon releaseWell control
- Well intervention
- Blowout preventerWellhead
- Competence and trainingIgnition source controlJob safety analysisOperating and work procedures
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An MMS alert describes loss of well control during workover/completion after completion-fluid pumping stopped and a tubing hanger lockdown pin was removed, bypassing blowout prevention. Seawater and hydrocarbons escaped. It distinguishes direct from possible contributing causes and recommends improved hanger-landing procedures, well-control training and job safety analyses.
Classifications: Barrier management; safety barrier management.
Classifications: Hydrocarbon release; hydrocarbon leak; oil and gas release.
Classifications: Well control; kick control; loss of well control.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Blowout preventer; BOP; blow-out preventer.
Classifications: Wellhead; well head.
Classifications: Competence and training; competency assurance; safety training.
Classifications: Ignition source control; ignition prevention.
Classifications: Job safety analysis; JSA; job hazard analysis; JHA.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 18. Themes: control of work, process safety.