Blowouts are easily the most dangerous and destructive potential disasters in the world of oil drilling. Not only can they lead to serious injury and even death, but they can also cause massive, ...

Well-control operations using the wait-and-weight method (W&W) in a deepwater horizontal well are harder to implement than in a vertical well. Simulations of well-killing procedures for future ...

Well control maintains bottomhole pressure within the safe window between formation pore pressure and fracture pressure to prevent influxes (kicks), blowouts, and formation breakdown during drilling, ...