Safety Alert
Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) Connector Failure
Lower Marine Riser Package (LMRP) Connector Failure
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 13-04
- Inspection and MaintenanceStructural and Asset Integrity
- Mechanical failureStructural and asset integrity
- Inspection and maintenance
- Independent audit and verification
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
This alert describes multiple incidents involving loss of integrity in LMRP H-4 connector bolts. It outlines BSEE directions to affected operators to suspend operations pending bolt replacement or recertification, with independent certification requirements. It also reports at least one similar failure outside the US Gulf of Mexico.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Structural and asset integrity; asset integrity; structural integrity.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Independent audit and verification.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
IADC Alert 13-04. Themes: inspection and maintenance, structural and asset integrity.