Talk:Blowout (well drilling)

Er, hey, hate to ask, but.... did anybody survive the pictured blowout? (WOW.) Petwil 05:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

I wanna see :( what happened to the pictures?

I significantly rewrote this article to add more details into the causes of a blowout and removed a couple of paragraphs which had an accusatory tone towards responsibility of rig personnel in order to establish a neutral point of view. There's a lot of room for improvement on my revision and more details are needed about the well control process, though. --Altailji 23:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

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I also rewrote the article to add some of these details, while keeping with the "flow" of the original one (which probably has been created by a "committee" over the years). Among other things, I edited it to cater to the the reality that not all kicks are gas (salt water ones usually are a bit easier to control) and not all incidences (indeed,few of them) of simple lost circulation lead to a kick. Irv (talk) 23:35, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Add Gusher?

I would leave it as an article of its own, simply because the very word "gusher" is so familiar in oil field lore and in the public's common vernacular. Perhaps a reference to Blowout (well drilling) should appear closer to the top of the page. And the second section (The Cause of gushers -- starting with plankton on the ocean floor!) could be eliminated entirely but if the basic info not already there it should be incorporated in the main Blowout article. Irv (talk) 18:07, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Replied over at Talk:Oil gusher#Move to Blowout (oil well)?.--Father Goose (talk) 21:11, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Agree that the pages should probably be kept seperate for the moment. Maybe the gusher page should be limited to a time period before modern well control systems were used, and the Blowout page used for newer well incidents and the contemporary understanding of well blowout. andyminicooper (talk) 21:26, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Formation Fluid

I removed this from the article because I could not find anywhere in wikipedia where it is defined to the interested layman. Or at all for that matter. I certainly was not defined in the Petroleum geology article which the wikilink I removed pointed to.

Nick Beeson (talk) 12:11, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

About that jargon

No kidding there's excessive jargon. I've got a doctorate in engineering (but not petroleum engineering) and there are definitely uncommon terms here. Just a few of the terms pivotal to the explanation, but undefined and uncommon:
Mud pit
Annulus (I know the term in geometry, but not what part of a drilling operation it constitutes)
Drill pipe (seems to refer to a specific part of the drilling, but function unknown) Pressure control systems
formation fluid
formation pore pressure (the link for this goes to an article that doesn't mention this term)
thief zone
improper mud density control

Surely a description in common language is possible?

CambridgeOrbital (talk) 23:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)