BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Tendenci - The Open Source AMS for Associations//Tendenci Codeba se MIMEDIR//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration.\r\nEvent d etails subject to change. ---\r\nhttps://www.spegcs.org/events/3011/\r\n\r \nEvent Title: Drilling: SPE DL, John Turley: Assessing and Applying Petro leum Engineering Data From the 2010 Macondo Blowout\r\nStart Date / Time: Oct 14, 2015 11:30 AM US/Central\r\nLocation: Hilton Houston North\r\nSpea ker: John Turley, 2015-16 SPE Distinguished Lecturer\r\nGoogle\r\nhttp://m aps.google.com/maps?q=12400+Greenspoint+Drive,Houston,TX,77060\r\n\r\nFore cast\nhttp://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/77060\r\n\r\n \r\nOn 20 April 2010, the Macondo blowout in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico killed 11 men, burne d and sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, and devastated the Gulf. In vestigative authorities queried mechanical systems, operating decisions, c orporate cultures, safety procedures, and testimony by survivors, academic s, experts, and executives. Meanwhile, industry personnel need succinct, n on-litigious, technical answers to fundamental questions about the cause o f the blowout for application to future projects. Such answers define the specific mechanics, actions, and decisions on the rig that collectively op ened a pathway into a cased-and-cemented deep-water wellbore and allowed h ydrocarbons to flow unobserved from a high-pressure reservoir to eventuall y erupt over the derrick and continue even after the blowout preventers we re closed.\r\n \r\nTo unravel the cause of the blowout, data during the we ll's final hours are assessed and defined using petroleum-engineering fund amentals, including wellbore mechanics, hydrodynamics, inflow performance, fluid properties, well-control principles, etc. The chain of events thus revealed includes forming an annulus-to-wellbore leak, exacerbating the le ak, testing and declaring the well secure, causing the well to flow, and a llowing the well to flow until too late, even for the blowout preventers. The technical assessment leads to conclusions that define those factors t hat contributed to the blowout, as well as to those that caused the blowou t.\r\n \r\nFrom the presentation, SPE members and a wider audience from ac ross the industry and beyond will see by example the necessity and importa nce of applying petroleum-engineering and process-management fundamentals to day-to-day drilling work, in real time, both in the office and on the r ig. From the Macondo assessment, a process-interruption protocol is defin ed, which can be applied to wells around the world, whether deep or shallo w, onshore or offshore.--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration. Event details subject to change. ---\r\n\r\n--- By Tendenci - The Open Sou rce AMS for Associations ---\r\n UID:uid3011@spegcs.org SUMMARY:Drilling: SPE DL, John Turley: Assessing and Applying Petroleum Engineering Data From the 2010 Macondo Blowout DTSTART:20151014T163000Z DTEND:20151014T180000Z CLASS:PUBLIC PRIORITY:5 DTSTAMP:20240328T213029Z TRANSP:OPAQUE SEQUENCE:0 LOCATION:Hilton Houston North X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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On 20 April 2010, the Macondo blowout in t he U.S. Gulf of Mexico killed 11 men, burned and sank the Deepwater Horizo n drilling rig, and devastated the Gulf. Investigative authorities queried mechanical systems, operating decisions, corporate cultures, safety proce dures, and testimony by survivors, academics, experts, and executives. Mea nwhile, industry personnel need succinct, non-litigious, technical answers to fundamental questions about the cause of the blowout for application t o future projects. Such answers define the specific mechanics, actions, an d decisions on the rig that collectively opened a pathway into a cased-and -cemented deep-water wellbore and allowed hydrocarbons to flow unobserved from a high-pressure reservoir to eventually erupt over the derrick and co ntinue even after the blowout preventers were closed.
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< p>To unravel the cause of the blowout, data during the well's final hours are assessed and defined using petroleum-engineering fundamentals, includi ng wellbore mechanics, hydrodynamics, inflow performance, fluid properties , well-control principles, etc. The chain of events thus revealed includes forming an annulus-to-wellbore leak, exacerbating the leak, testing and d eclaring the well secure, causing the well to flow, and allowing the well to flow until too late, even for the blowout preventers. \; The techni cal assessment leads to conclusions that define those factors that contrib uted to the blowout, as well as to those that caused the blowout.& nbsp\;
From the presentation, SPE members and a wider audience from across the industry and beyond will see by example the necessity and impo rtance of applying petroleum-engineering and process-management fundamenta ls to day-to-day drilling work, in real time, both in the office and on th e rig. \; From the Macondo assessment, a process-interruption protocol is defined, which can be applied to wells around the world, whether deep or shallow, onshore or offshore.