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India gas well blowout capped and killed in 17 days

Journal Article · · World Oil
OSTI ID:87510
On January 8, 1995, the Pasarlapudi 19 gas well being drilled by India`s ONGC (oil and Natural Gas Corp.) near Amalapuram, India, 295 miles east of the state capital, Hyderabad, blew out while the operator was retrieving a stuck fish in deviated hole. On February 26, ONGC awarded a well control contract to International Well Control (IWC), Houston. On March 15, IWC and ONGC`s Crisis Management Team (CMT) completed extinguishing the fire, capping the well and killing the blowout, which was described by the experienced team as one of the two or three biggest they had ever seen. The article describes how the fire was extinguished and the well was capped, procedures heavily dependent on successful application of an abrasive fluid cutter supplied by Halliburton Energy Services (HES).
OSTI ID:
87510
Journal Information:
World Oil, Journal Name: World Oil Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 216; ISSN 0043-8790; ISSN WOOIAS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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