Well blow out in Fourchon
 

Just got a text that said there was large well blow out offshore Fourchon.
Anyone got any details.

Hope no one was injured.

Just heard about this on the radio....didn't have many details other than it was 75 miles south of fouchon.

Well.....this should play out well.....

Lmao, puns intended?

ABC is reporting it is a loss of control event.

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Upstreamonline.com, July 9, 2013 at 5:00p (h/t Anonymous tip): A Gulf of Mexico platform operated by Energy Resources Technology (ERT) is apparently leaking natural gas after the company reported a “loss of well control” Tuesday morning during a temporary plugging operation, US regulators said. [...] Ship Shoal Block 225 Platform B about 74 miles off Port Fourchon, Louisiana had been evacuated after the event. “According to ERT’s site assessment, natural gas is flowing from the well and there is a rainbow sheen visible on the surface estimated to be more than four miles wide by three quarters of a mile long,” [...] A Coast Guard spokesman said workers were actively trying to plug the well as of mid-afternoon Tuesday, but was not able to specify flow rates or expected volumes leaked. [...]

Sounds like cement job went wrong no way to isolate gas migration. That plus ppl not being on their game not being on top of trip tank, over looked gas cut fluid. Boom! Kick at surface! Boom ppl freak out! Boom rainbow sheen 1mi long.

I really hope thia doesnt turn into something serious.

With the way land drilling has been slowing down bc of the price of NG if they (the govt) did ANYTHING to slow down the # of drilling rigs that are currently flocking to the GOM the oilfiled would take a serious blow. As would S. Louisiana economy.

70 miles offshore is deep water but it sounds like they just took a kick like Bgizzle said. Should be able to kill well easily.

However, I said the same thing the first few days after mecando too.

gas well might not be as bad for the enviroment as a oil well. either way, somebody wasn't on their game to let this happen.

Also, article described structure as a platform.
If this is a production platform they will still have good casing integrity to surface as long as platform doesn't sink.

74 miles out of Fourchon. Anyone have any idea how deep water is here? Wonder if is a floating platform or not?

Pretty much the boarder of floater or not.....Medusa was/is 80 miles and she was/is a floater. I don't work oil, but I would think Natural gas wouldn't hurt the environment at all. Right?

Anytime there is a well control isse it is not good.
That is the most serious type of incident that you can report from a rig/platform besides human injury/death.

Ssbk 225 is 140-150' of water47 miles south of cocodrie

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Depends on what you call "hurting" the environment. To much pressure on surface casing or intermediate could mean under ground blowout and this could be a tale tale sign of it. "Gas leak" in the gulf? Underground blowouts don't give you tale tale signs of being captain obvious. Someone could take it as leaking casing/ subsurface leak off. It was being plugged for a reason. Not because it wasn't producing. OSHA sometimes will go in and say you gotta plug this well and update your surface equipment. So oil company gets your Jo schmo pna crew because they wearing hats. Bad cement job on isolation side could've just yielded a unexpected kick and the crew wasn't on their game. But indications of failed equipment could've yielded the superviser to freak out and try n hurry the operation casing integrity couldn't withstand the hydraulic horsepower of force feeding 16.2lb cement down its throat and cracked casing. Or, this happens more with drilling but coulda cracked formation losses fluid to permeable zone which in return gives you less hydrostatic pressure(calculated fluid integrity) which in return causes a kick when they move pipe or just sitting around waiting on orders waiting for cement "to dry". Sometimes 12hrs sometimes 24hr depending in company who pumped it and oil company standard practice. Usually offshore they are more well control coherent but ya never know. Sry for ranting this gets my adrenaline pumping. I love well control

Thanks Poxy!!!

It is roughly 60 miles south of Oyster Bayou (South of Morgan City) in +/-150' of water...if I can still read a block chart. Checked Rig zone, not much info there.

Never miss a chance to Blame a cementer hey brad ?


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Pfft only since they let u ALOMOST cement my pipe in the hole and I stayed 68 days drilling it out. Thanks again for that! Made me rich!

Might have been my truck but that wasn't me that mixed that job.


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You must cement for greenfield

No. Used to cement for Halliburton.


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With all the people who are now at greenfield so kinda.


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I don't miss that grey crap not one bit.


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I don't miss the hustle but I do miss the mathematical and science Brain part

I'm complete opposite. You can keep that math.


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