I
n April 2011, oil was at US$115/bbl and the deepwater drilling boom
was in full force. Rigs were fully staffed and operators had themoney
to invest in the best technologies available. And yet, in spite of the
fact that a year earlier, the industry experienced its greatest disaster in
recent history, the traditional well control paradigm remained largely
unchanged.
As countless investigations have shown, the reasons behind
loss of containment incidents are varied and complex. However, it
is certainly fair to say that these incidents involve failures on the
parts of both the people and systems that were in place to assure
well control. If the oil and gas industry was unable to secure well
A
NEW
DRILLING
PARADIGM
IAIN COOK AND GUY FEASEY, WEATHERFORD,
PRESENT THE BENEFITS OF AUTOMATED
WELL CONTROL.
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