Blowouts are easily the most dangerous and destructive potential disasters in the world of oil drilling. Not only can they lead to serious injury and even death, but they can also cause massive, ...

Well control in offshore drilling is the disciplined set of practices and equipment used to keep bottomhole pressure within the safe operating window (between pore pressure and fracture pressure), ...

Advancements in downhole tools and sensors are allowing operators real-time control and monitoring of flow from each separate producing or injection interval in a well. These completions, commonly ...

Well-control operations using the wait-and-weight method (W&W) in a deepwater horizontal well are harder to implement than in a vertical well. Simulations of well-killing procedures for future ...