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Accident of Drill and Exploitation Equipment

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Course Unit Code541-3007/03
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated2 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory type B
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *First Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
KUN109doc. Ing. Antonín Kunz, Ph.D.
Summary
Operational failures and accidents, general legal requirements for risk management in mining activities and activities carried out by mining methods. Emergency plans. Sources of accidents during drilling and mining. Mining Rescue Service. Accidents and their solutions - drilling rods and drilling tools, dedicated technical equipment, other machinery. Pressure relations in the well. Well control.The role of the drilling crew in emergency situations. The concept of accident and operational failure in the gas industry. Economic and ecological impacts of accidents in hydrocarbon drilling and extraction.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The subject acquaints students with possible technical failures and accidents that can occur during drilling and extraction processes of oil and gas. The course includes an overview of potential technical and technological risks, preventive and active methods of their management, ways of solving type technological failures and accidents and analysis of the impacts of the most serious accidents on the economy, safety and the environment. The course also includes selected parts relating to key legislation and relevant emergency documentation.
Course Contents
1.Concepts of operational breakdown and accident, general legal requirements for risk management in mining activities, emergency plans and related operational documentation.
2.Sources of accidents during drilling and mining - introduction, mining rescue service.
3.Accidents and their solutions - drilling rods and drilling tools.
4.Accidents and their solutions - dedicated technical equipment - high pressure, gas, lifting and electrical.
5.Accidents and their solutions - machinery - engines, pumps, other machinery.
6.Pressure relations in the gas and oil well, pressures of rock formations in the Earth's crust.
7.Well control – sealing, controlling and monitoring the oil and gas wells to prevent blowouts.
8.Special problems in drilling and extraction - underground eruptions, piston effects.
9.The role of the drilling crew in emergency situations - training, emergency alarms.
10.Specific risks in drilling of geothermal wells.
11.The concept of accident and operational failure in the gas industry - gas, distribution and transport pipelines, compressors.
12. Case study I - Deepwater Horizon.
13. Case study II - selected examples.
14. Economic and ecological impacts of accidents in hydrocarbon drilling and extraction.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
LYONS, W.: Drilling Equipment and Operations. Gulf Professional Publishing; 1 edition (2009). ISBN-10: 1856178439, ISBN-13: 978-1856178433
ROBELLO S., XIUSHAN LIU: Advanced drilling engineering, Gulf Publishing Company 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1933762340
International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). (2015). IADC Guidelines for Surface BOP Drilling from Floating MODUs. International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). Retrieved from
https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpIADCGSBM/iadc-guidelines-surface/iadc-guidelines-surface
International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). (2015). Drilling Contractor Anthology Series - DC Managed Pressure Drilling. International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC). Retrieved from
https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpDCASDCM2/drilling-contractor-anthology/drilling-contractor-anthology
ZEMAN, V. PINKA, J., KLEMPA M., STRUNA J.: Technika a technologie vrtných prací, I díl, Ostrava 2014, ISBN: 978-80-905737-0-3
ZEMAN, V. PINKA, J., KLEMPA M., STRUNA J.: Technika a technologie vrtných prací, II díl, Ostrava 2014, ISBN: 978-80-905737-1-0
LYONS, W.: Drilling Equipment and Operations. Gulf Professional Publishing; 1 edition (2009). ISBN-10: 1856178439, ISBN-13: 978-1856178433
ROBELLO S., XIUSHAN LIU: Advanced drilling engineering, Gulf Publishing Company 2009, ISBN-13: 978-1933762340
Recommended Reading:
GRACE, R.: Advanced Blowout and Well Control. Gulf Professional Publishing (1994),ISBN-10: 088415260X,ISBN-13: 978-0884152606
ADC Deepwater Well Control Guidelines 2nd Ed. Published by: IADC, 2015.
ISBN: 978-0-9915095-2-2
YUAN, BIN WOOD, DAVID A.. (2018). Formation Damage during Improved Oil Recovery - Fundamentals and Applications. Elsevier. Retrieved from
https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpFDIORFA2/formation-damage-during/formation-damage-during
NOLAN, DENNIS P.. (2019). Handbook of Fire and Explosion Protection Engineering Principles for Oil, Gas, Chemical, and Related Facilities (4th Edition). Elsevier. Retrieved from
https://app.knovel.com/hotlink/toc/id:kpHFEPEP12/handbook-fire-explosion/handbo
BUJOK, P., KLEMPA, M.: Technologie těžby - učební text IRP. VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2016.
KLEMPA, M., et al.: Technika a technologie hlubinného vrtání - multimediální výukový text. Fond rozvoje vysokých škol, projekt č. 960/2011, 2011. Dostupné z: http://geologie.vsb.cz/TECHHLDOB/index.htm
FEDERER, I., SZABÓ, T., SZEPESI, T., FEDERE KOVÁCS, G.: Zmáhání tlakového projevu při rotarovém vrtání - školící manuál. IWCF, level 2, Miškolc, Maďarsko, 2010.
ADC Deepwater Well Control Guidelines 2nd Ed. Published by: IADC, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-9915095-2-2
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Individual consultations, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Graded creditGraded credit100 51