Abstract: Abstract The risk of blowout is one of the major threats for the safe operation of offshore drilling and production. Although conventional risk assessment methods have played an important role in identifying major risks and maintaining safety in offshore facilities, they have several disadvantages due to their structural limitations. The complex dynamic mechanism of blowouts, well‐specific risk factors due to specific reservoir and underground conditions, environmental and operational uncertainties, complexity of the decisions needed to respond to well control incidents, and time‐dependent degradation of blowout barriers require the development and implementation of advanced risk assessment and management techniques to incorporate these risk factors. This article describes the blowout scenarios and important risk factors that should be taken into account for blowout risk assessment. Then, a comparative study of existing blowout risk assessment techniques is provided. The main technological challenges and the requirements to implement an effective dynamic risk management of drilling and production facilities are discussed. The integration of the dynamic risk assessment of blowout with management systems is also discussed, which helps to enable safer complex offshore operations in extreme environments.
Publication Year: 2018
Publication Date: 2018-01-24
Language: en
Type: other
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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