Blowout and Well Control Handbook |  | Author: Robert D. Grace
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 469
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0750677082
Dewey Decimal Number: 622.3382
EAN: 9780750677080
ASIN: 0750677082
Publication Date: May 2003
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Product Description
As with his 1994 book, Advanced Blowout and Well Control, Grace offers a book that presents tested practices and procedures for well control, all based on solid engineering principles and his own more than 25 years of hands-on field experience. Specific situations are reviewed along with detailed procedures to analyze alternatives and tackle problems. The use of fluid dynamics in well control, which the author pioneered, is given careful treatment, along with many other topics such as relief well operations, underground blowouts, slim hole drilling problems, and special services such as fire fighting, capping, and snubbing. In addition, case histories are presented, analyzed, and discussed.
Provides new techniques for blowout containment, never before published, first used in the Gulf War.
Provides the most up-to-date techniques and tools for blowout and well control.
New case histories include the Kuwait fires that were set by Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War.
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Well Written Explanation of the Nature and Technology of the Beast July 13, 2010
DCop (Houston, Texas United States)
This is by far one of the best presentations of the technology of oilwell blowout control. The first chapters present the classic subjects such as the Driller's method and the Weight and Wait method. Later chapters cover more of the current techniques for well control. Each chapter is strucutred to first go through the steps of a method and immediately following with a detail discussion of each step and the consequences of errors in actions and assumptions. All the required calculation methods are provided and presented in refreshing clarity. The last chapter of the book provides a really interesting history of the Kuwait well control efforts. The entire contents of the book assume the reader does have some knowledge of the nomenclature of the BOP stack and the control system. However, the terminology is not overwhelming. The best chapter in the book is the case study toward the end of the book. The author puts everything together that is covered in the previous chapters to resonate ideas and concepts. The one thing that will probably make this a classic is the "turn of events" in this chapter. It reads just like a mystery novel and this writer will not spoil the ending.
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