Hard Shut-In Procedure while Drilling with a Subsea BOP Stack

Nowadays, deepwater drilling is one of the important parts of drilling in the world and there are a lot of ongoing deepwater operations. Our team will start focus on subsea well control and this topic is about hard shut in procedure while drilling with a subsea stack. This is quite similar to surface stack but it is quite tricky how you space out the well properly because the BOP is way down below approximately thousand feet from sea surface.

Shut-In Procedure while Drilling with a Subsea BOP Stack

There are 3 steps which are space out, shut down and shut in and the details for the procedure are below.

1st step: Space Out

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2 Types of Shut-In (Hard Shut In and Soft Shut In)

For the drilling industry especially when we talk about well control, there are 2 types of shut in which are Hard Shut-in and Soft Shut-in.  This post will describe both shut in types and I wish I would be helpful for you all 🙂

Hard shut in: It means that while drilling choke line valves (HCR) are in the closed position; it will be opened after the well is shut in. The hard shut-in is the fastest method to shut in the well; therefore, it will minimize volume of kick allowed into wellbore.

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