Safety Alert
Drill Pipe Screen Lodging in Top Drive Results in Near Hit
Drill Pipe Screen Lodging in Top Drive Results in Near Hit
- IADC
- Safety Alert
- IADC Alert 17-04
- Machinery and Equipment
- Dropped objectsPressure systems
- Drilling
- Rotating machinery
- Upstream oil and gas
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Summary
The supplied account describes several incidents involving drill pipe screens lodging in top drives after pressure release from a mud pump pressure relief system. In some cases, screens subsequently became dislodged while the top drive travelled overhead, resulting in significant near hits.
Classifications: Dropped objects; falling objects; DROPS.
Classifications: Pressure systems; stored pressure; pressurised systems; pressurized systems.
Classifications: Drilling; well drilling.
Classifications: Rotating machinery; rotating equipment.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
IADC Alert 17-04. Themes: machinery and equipment.