Safety Alert
Safety Alert 89 - Blowout and Fire, 8 Fatalities
Safety Alert 89 - Blowout and Fire, 8 Fatalities
- BSEE
- Safety Alert
- BSEE Safety Alert 89
- Hot Work and FireHydrocarbon ReleaseProcess Safety
- FireHydrocarbon releaseWell control
- DrillingPressure testing
- Process pipework and pipelinesValve
- Evacuation, escape and rescueWell-barrier testing
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An offshore drilling blowout released gas through the mud system after drillpipe and standpipe valves could not be closed. Ignition killed eight men and destroyed the rig. The alert records prolonged well-control efforts and the operator’s planned expansion of pressure testing across mud-system equipment and piping.
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: Pressure testing; hydrostatic testing; pneumatic testing.
Classifications: Process pipework and pipelines; process piping.
Classifications: Valve; valves.
Classifications: Evacuation, escape and rescue; EER; escape and rescue.
Classifications: Well-barrier testing; well barrier verification.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
Summary
The alert concerns a blowout and fire resulting in eight fatalities.
BSEE Safety Alert 89. Themes: hot work and fire, hydrocarbon release, process safety.