Blowout Related Topics 
DIC Oil Tools
JULY 28, 2025
Pressure control : Casing helps control high-pressure zones underground, preventing blowouts (uncontrolled flow of oil/gas). Protection from fluids : It keeps groundwater and other underground fluids from mixing with the oil or gas.
Oil & Gas 360º
JUNE 25, 2025
Finally, BP is still paying for the 2010 Macondo disaster, when a blowout at an offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico caused one of the world’s worst oil spills. Unlike Shell, which includes $28.5 billion of such liabilities in its $41.5 billion net debt, BP excludes them.
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Oil & Gas 360º
JUNE 10, 2025
The planned approval comes amid concerns by some landowners and environmental groups that pumping CO2 into the ground could harm their groundwater and exacerbate earthquakes and old oil-well blowouts already happening in the Permian Basin as Texas struggles to manage wastewater disposal, for which it already has oversight authority.
OilPrice
MARCH 19, 2025
From sinkholes to blowouts to persistent leaks, more than a century of oil drilling in the region has left a daunting array of environmental hazards, the Texas Tribune wrote in a collaborative report with InsideClimate News earlier this week.
Drilling Manual
MARCH 20, 2025
Well blowout is an uncontrolled release of flowing fluids (e.g., This uncontrolled flow will end up with a well kick that increases in severity and may result in a blowout. Read more The post Well Blowout appeared first on Drilling Manual. The well control can only be recovered.
Keystone Energy Tools
JANUARY 22, 2025
Anyone who wants to be well-versed in oil drilling must understand the crucial role of the blowout preventer (BOP). One of the most critical components in a drilling rigs safety system is the blowout preventer (BOP). This device controls pressure and prevents dangerous blowouts during drilling operations.
McKinsey
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Major projects in late stages of construction face unique challenges that can drive substantial delays and cost blowouts. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
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