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In geology, a petroleum play, or simply a play, is a group of oil fields or prospects in the same region that are controlled by the same set of geological circumstances. [1] The term is widely used in the realm of exploitation of hydrocarbon-based resources.
A short-lived gusher at Alamitos #1 in Signal Hill, California, US in 1921 marked the discovery of the Long Beach Oil Field, one of the most productive oil fields in the world. [ 13 ] The Barroso 2 well in Cabimas , Venezuela , in December 1922 flowed at around 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3 ) per day for nine days, plus a large amount of natural gas.
The Pasarlapudi blowout was an oil rig blowout that took place on 6.50 pm, 8 January 1995 in Pasarlapudi, near Amalapuram in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh, India. It was the largest blowout ever recorded in the history of the India's oil and natural gas exploration with a fire that engulfed drilling site number 19, rig number E ...
LONDON -- In this edition, David Kuo and veteran oil and gas expert Malcolm Graham-Wood discuss the resources industry and potential winners from the sector. Companies in the spotlight include BP ...
Oil well fires are more difficult to extinguish than regular fires due to the enormous fuel supply for the fire. In fighting a fire at a wellhead, typically high explosives, such as dynamite, are used to create a shockwave that pushes the burning fuel and local atmospheric oxygen away from a well. (This is a similar principle to blowing out a ...
September 9, 2010: The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred in a suburb of San Francisco killing 8 and produced a ball of fire 1,000 foot high due to the rupture of the natural gas pipeline. [42] November 3, 2010: A gas explosion destroyed four houses and injured 15 people, in Merlin Road, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. [43]
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
An ignition source set fire to the natural gas, ejecting the wellhead from wellbore and melting a portion of the drilling rig. [4] The fire went on to burn for 1,064 days, consuming an estimated 12,000,000 m 3 (423,776,001 cu ft) of natural gas daily, [5] and killed numerous wildlife.