Seepage from Nearby Well
Seepage from Nearby Well
(OP)
The press is going have a hay day with "There about 27,000 abandoned wells in the Gulf." and it seems one close to the BP well is seeping. Can anyone clarify the situation. Is this good news, bad news, or not news at all?
HAZOP at www.curryhydrocarbons.ca





RE: Seepage from Nearby Well
Offshore wells are typically characterized by very high abandonment pressure (25% of OOIP was about all the industry ever got out of these wells) so with 27,000 abandoned wells drilled by hundreds of operators, operated by a different set of thousands of operators, and plugged by a third group (that was a subset of the second group) you can expect some botched handoffs and bad procedures.
My guess is that the daily "seepage" is on a par with what the BP well was spewing. The difference is that no one gets a Pulitzer for reporting on the seeps. There is another difference--the seeps are spread over a very wide area and natural biological processes take care of most of it. The spewing is too much, too fast for the bugs to deal with as quick as the armchair quarterbacks would like.
David
RE: Seepage from Nearby Well
HAZOP at www.curryhydrocarbons.ca
RE: Seepage from Nearby Well
RE: Seepage from Nearby Well
HAZOP at www.curryhydrocarbons.ca
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I'm sure there are similar rules in the GoM.