Well Containment System

When:

21 November 2013,19:00 Hour

- 00:00 Hour

Event type:Lezing

Event organizer:Offshore Techniek

Omschrijving

Lecture "Well Containment System"

The Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP) was established in 2011 as a result of The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP) efforts to improve well capping response readiness and to study further the need for, and feasibility of, global containment solutions. Through SWRP, international oil and gas companies have worked together on an unprecedented scale to share knowledge, local expertise and best practices to enhance international subsea well incident intervention capabilities and to minimize the environmental impact in the event of a serious subsea well control incident.

SWRP has undertaken extensive studies into existing technologies and capabilities, and the availability of components already stored around the world, in order to design a well intervention toolbox, including capping and dispersant capabilities, that can be used in different offshore regions around the world. The first elements of that intervention system are now available to the industry including four capping stack toolboxes and two kits for debris clearing and the subsea application of dispersant.

Further, SWRP developed a concept for a subsea well containment solution based on the use of vessels of opportunity and commercially available well testing equipment to capture well fluids from an incident well (in case the well capping operation is not adequate to stop uncontrolled flow of hydrocarbons to sea). Based on this concept, SWRP carried out further engineering and modelling studies to develop a technically feasible subsea well containment template system. The subsea well containment template system consists of a combination of (i) items of bespoke equipment referred to as the containment toolkit, and (ii) existing capture vessels and various items of industry standard well testing equipment.

The Subsea Well Response Project (SWRP) is collaborating with Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) to make a new subsea well intervention system available to the wider industry. This subsea well intervention system includes:

• Four capping stack toolboxes stored in Norway, Brazil, South Africa and Singapore
• Two subsea dispersant hardware kits stored in Norway and Brazil
• The containment toolkit stored with the original equipment manufacturers in strategic locations around the world.

The subsea well owners/operators are encouraged plan in advance, to prepare for a well control incident and potential emergency deployment of the integrated subsea well intervention system.

Spreker(s)

Andrew Kaczmarski, Well Containment Team Leader at Shell

DETAILS
* Sandwiches will be available at 6 P.M.
* Sandwiches beforehand and drinks afterwards are offered with the compliments of Shell.
* At the entrance you will be asked for your identification (passport or driving license).
* Registration latest on 7 November.