The Well Control Equipment Systems Safety – 2020 Annual Report, produced by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, summarizes well control equipment (WCE) failure events that occurred during well operations in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) during the calendar year. This report is based on information collected through SafeOCS, a confidential reporting program for the collection and analysis of data to advance safety in offshore energy operations. It contains an analysis of reported events involving WCE systems, including blowout preventer (BOP) equipment, and other key information about the events, such as root causes and follow-up actions. Data is presented by WCE system type (subsea or surface) and by when the event occurred (in-operation or not-in-operation).
The 2018 Annual Report: Blowout Prevention System Safety summarizes blowout prevention (BOP) equipment failures that occurred during drilling and non-...
The SafeOCS 2016 Annual Report, produced by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), summarizes blowout prevention (BOP) equipment failures on m...
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