Ukraine has regained control of a set of oil drilling platforms located in the Black Sea, Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR) announced on Sept. 11. The rigs had been occupied by Russia since the 2014 illegal annexation of Crimea.
[pdf] Stand-alone, information-packed chapters of the 12th edition of the definitive rig operations manual, the new IADC Drilling Manual, are now available in convenient electronic form. More than 100 renowned technical experts contributed to the first major rewrite of the IADC Drilling Manual in 22 years.
[pdf] The Well Control System or the Blowout Prevention System on a drilling rig is the system that prevents the uncontrolled, catastrophic release of high-pressure fluids (oil, gas, or salt water) from subsurface formations. These uncontrolled releases of formation fluids are referred to as Blowouts.
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