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Well Control
Well Control
Safely preventing and resolving well control events worldwide
Wild Well has been safely preventing and resolving all types of well control events worldwide for 45 years. Support and responsiveness from a reliable, experienced, and accessible well control company is required by operators around the globe. With unmatched years of experience, extensive numbers of trained personnel, strategic emergency response locations, and a supreme track record for successfully completed jobs, Wild Well has the resources needed to ensure a timely response to all well control and pressure control events.
Well Control: The Response Process
Initiate Response
RECEIVE CALL: Muster and clear personnel. Discuss, assess and mobilize well control personnel and equipment.
On Site Assessment
Rig up fire fighting equipment. Approach hot zone, assess wellhead/leak path.
Planning
Plan upcoming well control operation. Location prep, water run off, containment of fluids.
Mobilization of Resources
Mobilize additional resources if needed: pumps, kill fluid, third party services.
Initiate Well Control Operation
Access to hot zone/wellhead, prepare for well control capping/diverting ops.
CAP, CONTAIN, KILL
Install wellhead/capping stack; shut in or divert flow. Return well to safe status, hand over to client or continue well control snubbing or relief well operations.
well control experience
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blowout with Fire | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| Blowout | 17 | 36 | 36 | 31 | 23 |
| Pressure Control | 25 | 32 | 36 | 25 | 19 |
| Unconventional Intervention | 48 | 59 | 74 | 106 | 71 |
| Total | 93 | 129 | 148 | 166 | 113 |