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  2. Well kill - Wikipedia

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    This is the most common method of a contingency well kill. If there is a sudden need to kill a well quickly, without the time for rigging up for circulation, the more blunt instrument of bullheading may be used. This involves simply pumping the kill fluid directly down the well bore, forcing the well bore fluids back into the reservoir. This ...

  3. Oil well control - Wikipedia

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    Source: [42] A well kill procedure is an oil well control method. Once the well has been shut-in on a kick , proper kill procedures must be done immediately. The general idea in well kill procedure is to circulate out any formation fluid already in the wellbore during kick, and then circulate a satisfactory weight of kill mud called Kill Weight ...

  4. Top kill - Wikipedia

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    A top kill is a procedure used as a means of regaining control over an oil well that has been producing or is experiencing well control issues with crude oil or natural gas in the well. It is not a procedure where control has been lost over the well, like a blowout. The process involves pumping heavyweight drilling mud into the well. This ...

  5. BP Begins Cementing Gulf Oil Well - AOL

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    BP (BP) has started pumping cement into its ruptured Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico, the next step in the process to permanently end the disastrous oil spill. Authorities gave the go-ahead ...

  6. BP Begins Tests to 'Kill' Damaged Oil Well - AOL

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  7. Completion (oil and gas wells) - Wikipedia

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    Single-well concentric kill string: within the well a small diameter concentric kill string is used to circulate kill fluids when needed. Single-well 2-tubing completion: in this instance 2 tubing strings are inserted down 1 well. They are connected at the lower end by a circulating head.

  8. Well control - Wikipedia

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    Well control is the technique used in oil and gas operations such as ... Reverse circulation is another kill method used for workovers that are not used for drilling ...

  9. Blowout (well drilling) - Wikipedia

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    On October 17, 1982, a sour gas well Amoco Dome Brazeau River, 13-12-48-12, being drilled 20 km west of Lodgepole, Alberta blew out. The burning well was finally capped 67 days later by the Texas well-control company Boots & Coots.