The central purpose of this document is to provide a framework for operators to leverage real-time monitoring (RTM) capabilities and technologies to, within reason, prevent or mitigate potential or actual threats to life, health, property, or the environment for ongoing operations under the jurisdiction of BSEE.
The main objective of this project is determine how resins can be used for OCS well cementing to improve barrier performance. A global evaluation of the different types of commercially available resins will be conducted to determine how effective they have been when placed in offshore and onshore wells to affect proper pressure control. Global evaluation will include an assessment of any available real world data (public and/or private). An assessment of any regulations in effect on the use of these resins will be conducted among major offshore (e.g.
This contract presents a method and machine for predictably stemming an uncontrolled flow resulting from a failed Blowout Preventer. The tool, referred to as the "Hampering Active Wellbore Kit" (HAWK), is a machine that can feed a wire from a spool it carries through a BOP's existing ports and into the wellbore. The wire forms a tangled wire mass (TWM) that gradually stems the uncontrolled flow. A prototype machine for direct attachment to a BOP as a backup safety system will be presented based on operating constraints and industry requirements.
The objective of this project was to conduct research on the thermal effects on wells and the risk of these as related to well integrity (specifically on well barriers) and potential solutions to these risks. The contractor evaluated the effects of thermal shock on OCS well integrity and identified ways to mitigate those effects.
The Contractor shall update the existing HPHT well data by plotting bottom hole pressure and bottomhole temperature versus true vertical depth (TVD) for GOM wells that have been drilled from 2006 to 2014. These plots should distinguish between wells at greater than 1 OOOft water depth (deep water wells) and those wells in less than lOOOft water depth (shallow water wells). Information from BSEE's Technical Information Management System (TIMS) and eWell Permitting and Reporting System (eWell) will be necessary for the update including well log.
BSEE seeks a roundtable that will provide a neutral forum in which government; industry, academia, non-governmental, and international organization representatives to meet on an ongoing basis.
This project will define a general approach to, and advance development of, a useful predictive computer-modeling tool for analyzing failure modes of cladded materials used in oil and gas operations. It will develop and validate a constitutive model to define fatigue and fracture behavior of cladded pipe under deep-water conditions. The failure prediction tool will predict fatigue and fracture performance of cladded weld materials in equipment used in high pressure (15 ksi) and high temperature (>350℉) (HPHT), corrosive environment (H2S, Cl, S and CO2).
The Contractor shall update the existing HPHT well data by plotting bottom hole pressure and bottomhole temperature versus true vertical depth (TVD) for GOM wells that have been drilled from 2006 to 2014. These plots should distinguish between wells at greater than 1 OOOft water depth (deep water wells) and those wells in less than lOOOft water depth (shallow water wells). Information from BSEE's Technical Information Management System (TIMS) and eWell Permitting and Reporting System (eWell) will be necessary for the update including well log.
To address the need for a uniform verification method to assure blind-shear ram functionality, this projejct is to conduct computational analysis for a set of general cases where the following parameters are varied: tubing/string geometry (size/thickness), flow conditions/well pressure, fluid properties, and ram geometry.
