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1.5 Acknowledgement: Introduction Page 4 of 10

This manual, prepared by Boots and Coots and published by Offshore Design Limited, discusses well control incidents, focusing on the costs and losses incurred during blowouts. It highlights the difficulty in documenting these costs and provides a historical perspective on blowout risks, emphasizing that the majority of blowouts occur during drilling operations. The data compiled indicates that 85% of blowouts from 1979 to 1999 happened while drilling, particularly during transitional operations.

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1.5 Acknowledgement: Introduction Page 4 of 10

This manual, prepared by Boots and Coots and published by Offshore Design Limited, discusses well control incidents, focusing on the costs and losses incurred during blowouts. It highlights the difficulty in documenting these costs and provides a historical perspective on blowout risks, emphasizing that the majority of blowouts occur during drilling operations. The data compiled indicates that 85% of blowouts from 1979 to 1999 happened while drilling, particularly during transitional operations.

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INTRODUCTION Page 4 of 10

1.5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
This manual was prepared by Boots and Coots – International Well Control of
Houston, Texas and published both in paper and CD format by Offshore Design
Limited (ODL), both of Aberdeen, Scotland.

1.6 OVERVIEW OF WELL CONTROL INCIDENTS

1.6.1 Costs and Losses Incurred During a Blowout


The cost of control or the losses associated with fires and explosions in production
operations are difficult to document as this information is not freely distributed, nor is it
generally in the public domain: however, the data shown herein has been compiled
from the insurance industry, in particular from the Willis Adviser™ which is a portfolio of
electronic services from Willis and Corroon.
In order to fully appreciate the costs involved with a blowout, we have compiled a list of
the most costly incidents per year for the past 20 years. Table 1.1 provides us with a
general idea of losses associated with each incident as well as location.

1.6.2 Blowout Risk – A Historical Perspective


In trying to quantify the risk we run in exploration and production operations, we may
consider the following main risk factors:
 Geographical location
 Type of operation: development or exploratory drilling or producing
 Type drilling rig
 Well depth
We will quantify the risk in number of occurrences per well drilled, thereby
incorporating rig activity into our results. This then provides us with a percentage,
which represents the risk we run each time we spud or produce a well. This then is far
more tangible than probabilities, which are expressed by orders of magnitude.
A previous study of blowout data over the period 1961 to 1990 for the Gulf of Mexico
shows that, in recent years, drilling blowout occurrence was probable while a blowout
for production was less likely. These results apply only to the Gulf of Mexico. However,
a similar study which made use of the ‘Veritec’ database yielded the same results for
the North Sea.
The present study of the data also shows that it is far more likely to experience a
blowout while drilling. To be more precise, our results indicate that 85% of all blowouts
for the period ranging from 1979 to 1999 occurred during drilling (as opposed to
production and completion or workover operations). Of these drilling blowouts almost
half occurred during transitional operations such as tripping.

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