Oil well control is the management of the dangerous effects caused by the unexpected release of formation fluid, such as natural gas and/or crude oil...

An oil well is a drillhole boring in Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface. Usually some natural gas is released as...

uncontrolled release of crude oil and/or natural gas from an oil well or gas well after pressure control systems have failed. Modern wells have blowout preventers...

Well control is the technique used in oil and gas operations such as drilling, well workover and well completion for maintaining the hydrostatic pressure...

pipes in an oil well, gas well, water injection well, water disposal well, gas injection well, condensate well, and other types of well. The first primitive...

isolation of oil, gas and water intervals. However, advances in interventions such as coiled tubing and tractors means that barefoot wells can be successfully...

drilling oil and natural gas wells and on exploration drilling rigs, drilling fluids are also used for much simpler boreholes, such as water wells. The two...

Kuwaiti oil fires and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. According to its website it has responded to 2,700 well control and pressure control events including...

Oil well fires are oil or gas wells that have caught on fire and burn. They can be the result of accidents, arson, or natural events, such as lightning...

Shetland, oil province on the UKCS WOW – wait/waiting on weather WP – well proposal or working pressure WPC – water pollution control WPLAN – well course...