another rig blew.......

[rondog]

I work for Blue Stream Services. That's one of the new platforms Apache bought from Mariner.

[Reel Bender]

Originally Posted by rondog

I work for Blue Stream Services. That's one of the new platforms Apache bought from Mariner.

Guess my wife will have to work a few more years!!!!!!!!!!!


Hope everyone is OK!!!!!!!!

[Montauk17]

The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana. The site of the explosion is west of where BP's massive spill occurred. The Coast Guard said no one was killed Thursday in the explosion. All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water in survival gear.

[hankscke123]

Platform was not producing so my guess they hade construction going on I use to have the field next door vern369 I think IOC runs

[southern151]

Thank God every one of these guys will get to go home! As for oBUMa and his followers, well, I need to pee anyway!!!!! More for their propaganda campaign!

They need to take the long walk off the short pier!

[Ray]

On production platforms, there are fusible plugs, plugs that melt at different temperatures. These plugs are located every few feet on a stainless steel tubing line, located on or near any pump, control valve, manway or major flange, gas compressors, wellheads, anything that can possibly release gas or oil and cause a fire.
When these fusible plugs release the 30 lbs. of air in the tubing to the atmosphere, the Emergency Shutdown(ESD) system is activated and all automatic shutdown valves on the well head shut in within 45 seconds. After that, the hydraulic downhole valves shut within 2 minutes after the last Surface Safety Valve on the wellheads shut in. This secures all wells in case no one could activate the ESD manually.
This is not like a well being drilled, where the wellbore pressure is only held under control by the drilling fluids.
The fire burning must have been from fluids from a ruptured line, vessel or tank.
Production platforms have a lot more built in safety systems than a drilling or workover rig.
Also, there is an ESD valve on the boat landing, where they jumped into the water, that can be activate the ESD and a plastic tubing that can be broken by the workers or a boat hook from a boat to activate the ESD system from the boat landing.

All or any of these can and will prevent catastrophic failures, if they are not bypassed at the time of the incident.