Blowout and Well Control Handbook

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 industry. While some rig crews experience frequent well control incidents, some go years before seeing the real thing. Either way, the crew must always be prepared with quick understanding of the operations and calculations necessary to maintain well control.

Updated to cover the lessons learned and new technology following the Macondo incident, this fully detailed reference will cover detection of influxes and losses in equipment and methods, a greater emphasis on kick tolerance considerations, an expanded section on floating drilling and deepwater floating drilling procedures, and a new blowout case history from Bangladesh. With updated photos, case studies, and practice examples, Blowout and Well Control Handbook, Second Edition will continue to deliver critical and modern well control information to ensure engineers and personnel stay safe, environmentally-responsible, and effective on the rig.

• Features updated and new case studies including a chapter devoted to the lessons learned and new procedures following Macondo
• Teaches new technology such as liquid packer techniques and a new chapter devoted to relief well design and operations
• Improves on both offshore and onshore operations with expanded material and photos on special conditions, challenges, and control procedures throughout the entire cycle of the well

Well control engineers, well control specialists, blowout engineers, drilling engineers, petroleum engineers, rig managers, oil well firefighters, and graduate level petroleum engineering students

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