Safety Alert
Environmental Alert 001/2015
Environmental Alert 001/2015
- OPRED
- Safety Alert
- OPRED Environmental Alert 001/2015
- Environment
- Environmental protectionMechanical failureWell control
- Inspection and maintenance
- Blowout preventerRemotely operated vehicle
- Operating and work proceduresOperational supervisionPositive retention and reliable securing
- Upstream oil and gas
- Offshore installation
Summary
An environmental alert describes damage to both multiplex BOP control lines on a MODU in the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Area after a securing saddle slipped approximately one metre. It highlights attachment robustness, installation procedures, management oversight, periodic inspection and readiness testing of acoustic, auto-mode and ROV back-up controls.
Classifications: Environmental protection; environmental safety; pollution prevention.
Classifications: Mechanical failure; equipment failure.
Classifications: Well control; kick control; loss of well control.
Classifications: Inspection and maintenance; asset inspection; equipment maintenance.
Classifications: Blowout preventer; BOP; blow-out preventer.
Classifications: Remotely operated vehicle; ROV; underwater robot.
Classifications: Operating and work procedures.
Classifications: Operational supervision.
Classifications: Positive retention and reliable securing.
Classifications: Upstream oil and gas; oil and gas extraction; upstream petroleum.
Classifications: Offshore installation; offshore platform; offshore rig.
OPRED Environmental Alert 001/2015. Themes: environment.