This is information which I got from my friends and I would like to share with you in order to emphasize the important of well control. I am not sure about the rig name. See photos and details below;
On Tuesday at around 4:16 pm local time, there has been an explosion and fire at Nabors Drilling Rig owned that worked for Whiting Petroleum, in the state of McKenzie, North Dakota. At that time a new rig drill depth of 15,000 feet, then there is pressure from the kick in the hole with a material that causes bursts of fire. Fire Brigade was spraying foam to extinguish it. A worker named Brian Busby suffered burns on his hands and his head and was rushed to the General Hospital in the town of Watford McKenzie to get treatment.
Source: Facebook.com
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Happy to hear no one was killed by the sounds of it.
I don’t believe the first picture in the series is of same incident. Multiple differences.
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What was the material that causes bursts of fire??? Where was the BOP?
Cliff,
I don’t have much details about this one.
Regards,
Shyne
Really appreciated share the information and remind the important of well control to whom working on the upstream of oil &gas wells drilling or completion.
15k ft is a quite deep well, especially for horizontal hole. How about the distant exposure of open hole along the lateral section, can it exhibit such high pressure? Also, as far as I know, most of blow out cases happened during trip operation which closely related to amount of mud level change due to pipe displacement and surge effect.