Safety Alert
Safety Alert 310 - Hydraulic Workover Unit Toppled by Waterspout
Safety Alert 310 - Hydraulic Workover Unit Toppled by Waterspout
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 310
- Machinery and EquipmentStructural and Asset Integrity
- Structural and asset integrity
- Well intervention
- Wire rope
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
A waterspout toppled a hydraulic workover unit on an offshore platform after personnel had moved to a supporting lift boat. BSEE identified high wind loading and increased guy-line angles as contributing factors. Recommendations address engineering calculations, additional support lines, seasonal weather and wire-rope selection against API specifications.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Well intervention; workover; well servicing.
Classifications: Wire rope; steel wire rope.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
BSEE Safety Alert 310. Themes: machinery and equipment, structural and asset integrity.