Bob
17th April 2017, 04:28
Alaska's Energy Desk - Anchorage - April 14, 2017
UPDATE – Saturday, April 15, 5:30 p.m
BP is still struggling to contain an out-of-control production well (source of the release is Well 3 on pad DS2 on the North Slope), after a failed attempt to shut it down Friday night. The well continued to vent natural gas Saturday evening, more than a day and a half after BP first reported a gas release and “spray” of crude oil.
The area near the well remained too unsafe for workers to approach Saturday. But BP said flights over the area suggested that oil from the well was likely contained to the drill pad, and may not have reached the surrounding tundra. The company confirmed there have been no injuries, and no reports of impacts to wildlife.
“The focus today is on developing plans to fully and safely secure the well,” BP said in a statement.
“It’s been spewing gas and some amount of crude, and some of it’s getting onto the surrounding tundra,” Dan Seamount said. He’s a commissioner with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. “We don’t have any volumes yet.”
Seamount said it’s been years since an incident like this took place on the North Slope. The drill site, DS2, is about five miles from the industry hub of Deadhorse.
On Friday afternoon, BP was working to depressurize the drill site to reduce the amount of gas venting from the well. Regulators said no workers were being allowed near the well until that happened, because of the fire hazard.
“When a well has lost control, it becomes unpredictable, and we want to make sure that the people that respond to the site do so in a safe way,” Ashley Adamczak, with the state Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) in Fairbanks, said.
We all remember BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster..
"BP first noticed the release at about 7:30 a.m. Friday, according to a situation report from ADEC. The report said representatives of ADEC, EPA and the North Slope Borough would establish a unified command with BP to develop cleanup plans.
"But as of 4 p.m. Friday, there was no word on when BP expected to have the well under control. Seamount said it could be hours, or days. The company hadn’t yet submitted a plan for shutting in the well to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for approval."
reference: https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2017/04/14/state-investigating-oil-and-gas-spraying-from-prudhoe-bay-well/
http://chanlo.com/images/bp_capture.JPG
UPDATE – Saturday, April 15, 5:30 p.m
BP is still struggling to contain an out-of-control production well (source of the release is Well 3 on pad DS2 on the North Slope), after a failed attempt to shut it down Friday night. The well continued to vent natural gas Saturday evening, more than a day and a half after BP first reported a gas release and “spray” of crude oil.
The area near the well remained too unsafe for workers to approach Saturday. But BP said flights over the area suggested that oil from the well was likely contained to the drill pad, and may not have reached the surrounding tundra. The company confirmed there have been no injuries, and no reports of impacts to wildlife.
“The focus today is on developing plans to fully and safely secure the well,” BP said in a statement.
“It’s been spewing gas and some amount of crude, and some of it’s getting onto the surrounding tundra,” Dan Seamount said. He’s a commissioner with the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. “We don’t have any volumes yet.”
Seamount said it’s been years since an incident like this took place on the North Slope. The drill site, DS2, is about five miles from the industry hub of Deadhorse.
On Friday afternoon, BP was working to depressurize the drill site to reduce the amount of gas venting from the well. Regulators said no workers were being allowed near the well until that happened, because of the fire hazard.
“When a well has lost control, it becomes unpredictable, and we want to make sure that the people that respond to the site do so in a safe way,” Ashley Adamczak, with the state Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) in Fairbanks, said.
We all remember BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster..
"BP first noticed the release at about 7:30 a.m. Friday, according to a situation report from ADEC. The report said representatives of ADEC, EPA and the North Slope Borough would establish a unified command with BP to develop cleanup plans.
"But as of 4 p.m. Friday, there was no word on when BP expected to have the well under control. Seamount said it could be hours, or days. The company hadn’t yet submitted a plan for shutting in the well to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for approval."
reference: https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2017/04/14/state-investigating-oil-and-gas-spraying-from-prudhoe-bay-well/
http://chanlo.com/images/bp_capture.JPG