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Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition, brings the engineer and rig personnel up to date on all the useful methods, equipment, and project details needed to solve daily well control challenges. Blowouts are the most expensive and one of the most preventable accidents in the oil and gas in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grace, Robert D. (Author)
Corporate Author: Knovel (Firm)
Other Authors: Cudd, Bob, Carden, Richard S., Shursen, Jerald L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Gulf Professional Publishing, [2017]
©2017
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Oil wells > Blowouts > Prevention.
Oil fields > Safety measures.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Mining.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Equipment in Well Control Operations; 2. Classic Pressure Control Procedures while Drilling; 3. Pressure Control Procedures while Tripping; 4. Special Conditions, Problems, 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. Case Studies; 10. Contingency Planning ; 11. The Al-Awda Project: The Oil Fires of Kuwait