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UK Parliamentary Report Link and Comment

Posted in accidents, UK, well control incidents, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on January 6, 2011| 1 Comment »

Link to the full report

What?

The blowout in the Gulf of Mexico could have been prevented if the last-line of defence—the blind shear ram on the blowout preventer, located at the well head on the ocean floor—had activated and crushed the drill pipe. Given the importance of this equipment, and the evident dangers of relying on a single device, we urge the HSE to consider prescribing specifically that blowout preventers on the UK Continental Shelf should have two blind shear rams.

Comments:

  1. The UK government should NOT be commenting on the BOP failure until the US government has completed its forensic testing and investigation.
  2. The Committee has apparently not paid any attention to the testimony on the BOP issues or the other BOP information that has surfaced.  Have they not seen the comments from BP and Transocean or the videos shot on the Q4000?
  3. Would it have been appropriate for the US government to publish a report on Piper Alpha before Lord Cullen had completed his review?

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UK Parliamentary Committee releases post-Macondo report

Posted in accidents, UK, well control incidents, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 5, 2011| Leave a Comment »

The UK Energy and Climate Change Committee has released its report entitled “UK Deepwater Drilling – Implications of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.” We’ll post the report as we get a link.

Here’s the gist:

A moratorium on oil drilling in deep waters off Britain would undermine the country’s energy security, according to a report by lawmakers published on Thursday in response to the BP spill disaster last year.

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