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re: Blowout in Blanchard Oklahoma
Posted on 1/31/26 at 1:45 am to Nado Jenkins83
Posted on 1/31/26 at 1:45 am to Nado Jenkins83
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1700 feet tvd
Venezuela?
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Posted on 1/31/26 at 4:48 am to Disco Ball
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What is a "Workover Rig"
When you picture an oil rig, you think of the derrick. Which is the tall structure. It's basically a vertical crane that pulls pipe or lower pipe in the hole. A full rig is going to have that, but also a lot more components, such as a "mud" system, drilling features, etc.. A work over rig will likely just have the derrick to swap out pipe within an existing well. They are much simpler and quicker to set up on location. A lot of the time they are similar to those truck cranes you'll see on the highway that can fold up into a mobile unit you can drive to the next site.
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what is that high pressure spray coming out of that rig
Reservoir fluid containing gas and a bunch of other stuff I'm sure. Looks like they just haven't had an ignition source or something.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 8:39 am to RanchoLaPuerto
Texas. And some in arkansas that were 3000 tvd. We didnt drill very far horizontally. Maybe 2000 feet VS
This post was edited on 1/31/26 at 8:41 am
Posted on 1/31/26 at 10:59 am to Salmon
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It's not. The gas comes up with liquid (produced water) and then it is separated on the pad and transported via pipeline in gas form.
Gas coming from wells can be dry (like air) or wet (liquid). It depends on how many carbon chains it has. The wet gas comes straight out of the well also. If your flare is orange, it's dry gas. If you have blue flares, it's wet.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 11:04 am to RanchoLaPuerto
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Venezuela?
There are some spots in South Texas in a very shallow formation where it's that shallow. It's faulted up. They call me to drill those formations.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:13 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
Saw a post on X saying the well was blowing out through the gland nuts on the wellhead. Would make sense in that you can see 3 distinct radial plumes coming from the head. Sounds like they took an influx pulling/removing tubing and the BOP was closed but the gland nuts and/or the lock screws on the wellhead failed. Probably some rig hands got caught loosening them to make work easier coming in or out of the hole - anybody who has spent time on a workover rig knows what I'm talking about here.
Guessing the yellow mist is condensate that is entrained in the gas spreading out over the area.
Guessing the yellow mist is condensate that is entrained in the gas spreading out over the area.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:23 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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Low API gravity?
Nah... Around a 35.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:32 pm to TigerDog83
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TigerDog83
Interesting. Don’t know that much about wellheads.
Just asking: why would keeping them loose make GIH or POOH easier?
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:33 pm to BigD45
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Nah... Around a 35.
Wow. All the wells I know about that shallow are 20 or under.
Guess I don’t get around enough. Always learning something new.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:46 pm to Tiger Ryno
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Who is the drilling contractor on this one?
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:48 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
Guessing that maybe the hands were having some kind of problem and tried to loosen them as a short cut removing something or replacing a packing or some sort of internal part and forgot to re-tighten them but we will see when official word leaks. Just what rig hands like to do. It's been my experience that once a gland nut leaks you get a wellhead company out to replace it and torque it up/ensure it is a good seal.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 1:12 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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Wow. All the wells I know about that shallow are 20 or under.
Guess I don’t get around enough. Always learning something new.
I'm getting ready to go freeze my arse off on The North Slope for the next month. I'm stuck in Anchorage for meetings until Wednesday, and I'm waiting on the weather at the same time. They were in Phase 3 the last several days up there because of the weather, so everything got backed up.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 1:59 pm to BigD45
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I'm stuck in Anchorage for meetings until Wednesday,
What the word on that drilling rig that fell over?
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:01 pm to TigerDog83
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Guessing that maybe the hands were having some kind of problem and tried to loosen them as a short cut removing something or replacing a packing or some sort of internal part and forgot to re-tighten them
That big Chevron blowout was an improperly set tubing hangar IIRC.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:08 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
They have another rig up there in its place moving forward. I was surprised they were able to get another one that quick, but I think they took another rig off another project and put it on that one.
A bunch of environmental groups filed suit, but they lost it the other day. Thanks to the ice and snow there won't be any environmental impact.
That blowout in Oklahoma was similar to what happened to Repsol up on the Slope back in 2012. Everyone evacuated. The blowout was hydrates and mud that froze on the surface, so they had a big, frozen block of mud encasing pretty much everything on location until it thawed. It took them about 10 days to be able to fly everyone out from it because no one had IDs on them. $2500 per person on private flights. It was a total shite show.
A bunch of environmental groups filed suit, but they lost it the other day. Thanks to the ice and snow there won't be any environmental impact.
That blowout in Oklahoma was similar to what happened to Repsol up on the Slope back in 2012. Everyone evacuated. The blowout was hydrates and mud that froze on the surface, so they had a big, frozen block of mud encasing pretty much everything on location until it thawed. It took them about 10 days to be able to fly everyone out from it because no one had IDs on them. $2500 per person on private flights. It was a total shite show.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:12 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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RanchoLaPuerto
Are you originally from Jena? I am. I just moved back last year, but I've been laying low.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:14 pm to RanchoLaPuerto
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It would have an LEL between 8 and 13 percent IIRC.
He means Lower Explosive Limit
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:17 pm to ColoradoAg03
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The emulsion coming up a wellbore to the surface can be a mixture of natural gas, produced water, condensate, and oil.
And condensate is just heavier constituents of natural gas. Both oil and natural gas are made up of many different hydrocarbons like methane, heptane, butane, etc.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 2:22 pm to Penrod
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And condensate is just heavier constituents of natural gas. Both oil and natural gas are made up of many different hydrocarbons like methane, heptane, butane, etc.
I like cetane and octane myself!
You can see C1 through C10 in real-time with a mass spectrometer reading heated mud. Schlumberger has a good one. I don't know if Haliburton or Baker Hughes runs one. Most of the ones I've seen have been dogshit.
Everything else has to be done in the lab.
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