The United States Department of the Interior published the final well control rule on Aug. 22 from the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The rule clarifies blowout preventer (BOP) ...

Existing loss of well control (LOWC) event indicators fall short of predicting events in an accurate and timely manner due to a lack of real-time data integration crucial for proactive risk management ...

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), ...

This chapter describes the basic function of the Deepwater Horizon mobile offshore drilling unit (MODU); 1 its application in the Macondo well exploration; and specific areas of investigation ...

The US Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) is moving to strengthen well control regulations amended during former US president Donald Trump’s administration. BSEE director Kevin Sligh ...

Role summary: A well completion engineer on offshore rigs leads the design and execution of the well’s final downhole hardware and fluids to safely transition from drilling to production or injection ...

Australia’s offshore regulator the National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Management Authority (Nopsema) this month slapped a prohibition notice on Noble Drilling’s harsh-environment ...