Blowouts are among the most undesired and feared accidents during drilling operations.
The dynamic nature of blowout accidents, resulting from both rapidly changing physical …

Blowout is the most feared and undesired accident during offshore drilling. It is inevitable,
but the risk can be maintained to be below the acceptable criteria with effective strategies …

Most risk analysis of drilling operations failed to distinguish and capture evolving risk during
different stages of drilling operations. This paper presents a new integrated dynamic risk …

There is an increasing concern in the oil and gas industry regarding wellbore stability
problems. The need to improve well operations becomes more imperative as the operators …

Most risk analysis approaches are static; failing to capture evolving conditions. Blowout, the
most feared accident during a drilling operation, is a complex and dynamic event. The …

Blow-out prevention and formation gas/fluid influx control is a major concern in any drilling
operation. In conventional drilling, the only widely accepted response to a gas influx is to …

Because of the high frictional pressure losses in kill lines in ultra-deep water wells, it is
challenging to control the blowout under worst case blowout scenarios. The operational …

There is an increasing concern in the oil and gas industry regarding wellbore stability
problems. The need to improve well operations becomes more imperative as the operators …

Underbalanced operations (UBO) are carried out to bypass drilling challenges that could be
difficult to resolve by use of conventional drilling techniques. Steady-state multiphase-flow …

The maritime delimitation in the former disputed area between Norway and Russia was
agreed upon in 2011. It is therefore probable that the area will be opened for petroleum …