Relief Well Plans & Relief Well Execution
Cudd Well Control offers a full range of relief well planning and execution services designed to deliver timely solutions during critical well control events. Relief well pre-planning for permitting and equipment selection has proven instrumental in mitigating, or even eliminating, the risks of a nonresolution after employing conventional methods to control the well. Due diligence reduces stress.
A relief well serves as a method to intercept and kill a blowout well when surface or direct intervention may require an extended period of time or when unacceptable risks are present for capping or direct intervention. When planned and executed properly, relief wells are highly successful.
Why a Relief Well
- • Surface equipment damaged beyond use or inaccessible
- • Surface intervention options present unacceptable risks
- • Dual strategy when combined with direct intervention
- • Relief well may provide faster remedy than direct intervention
Basic Steps of a Relief Well
- • Determine relief well location
- • Relief well rig position surveyed
- • Drilling begins
- • Set casing(s)
- • Continue directional drilling