Blowout and Well Control Handbook

Informationen zum Autor Robert Grace is currently CEO and President of GSM, Inc., a successful consulting firm in the USA he founded in 1976. Robert has more than 40 years of onshite experience in the oil fields of the world. For the past 35 years, he has served primarily as a consultant in blowouts, fires, well control, deep drilling, and completion operations. As a well control expert, he has specialized in handling and supervising some of the most complex blowouts the industry has known, including the largest blowout in Texas history. He was also an advisor to the Kuwait Oil Company following the 1991 Gulf War. He has authored numerous conference papers and books, and he earned BS and MS degrees in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Robert is also a registered professional engineer. Zusammenfassung Presents tested practices and procedures for well control, all based on engineering principles. This book reviews specific situations along with detailed procedures to analyze alternatives and tackle problems. It covers topics such as use of fluid dynamics in well control, relief well operations, underground blowouts, and others.

List of contents

1. Equipment in Well Control
2. Classic Pressure Control Procedures While Drilling
3. Pressure Control Procedures While Tripping
4. Special Conditions, Problems, and Procedures in Well Control
5. Fluid Dynamics in Well Control
6. Special Services in Well Control
7. Relief Well Design and Operations
8. The Underground Blowout
9. The Al-Awda Project: The Oil Fires of Kuwait
10. Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert D. Grace, Robert D. (Ceo and President of Gsm Grace, GRACE ROBERT D, Grace Robert D.
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2003
• EAN: 9780750677080
• ISBN: 978-0-7506-7708-0
• No. of pages: 469
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, Geological surface processes (geomorphology), Petroleum technology, Mining technology & engineering, Geomorphology and geological surface processes