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BSEE Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Update BSEE Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Update Lars Herbst, Regional Director Agenda Regulatory Update Gulf of Mexico Activity Focus on Loss of Well Control Questions? 2 Regulatory Update Published proposed rulemaking Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems – Subpart H Published August 22, 2013, comment period was extended and closed December 5, 2013 Includes: safety and pollution prevention equipment lifecycle analysis, production safety systems, subsurface safety devices, and safety device testing In preparation, due out mid-2014 Blowout Prevention Systems Arctic (joint with BOEM) 3 Upcoming Proposed Rules Suspensions of Production and Operations Natural Gas Fluids Measurement Oil Spill Mechanical Recovery 4 Drilling Permits Shallow Water < 500 ft. Deepwater > 500 ft. Total Year New Well Bypass Sidetrack New Well Bypass Sidetrack Approved 2013 72 51 120 57 34 23 357 2012 67 42 108 112 25 23 377 2011 71 40 87 38 19 22 277 2010 72 32 92 32 19 23 270 2009 95 28 70 76 26 46 341 5 GOM Wells Gulf of Mexico OCS Region Total Wells Drilled by Year 1600 1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 0 Wells Drilled 6 100 120 140 20 40 60 80 0 Jan '09 Mar All Depths OCS – GulfofMexico in # ofRigs May All Water Depths Water All July Sept Rig Activity Activity Rig Nov Jan '10 Mar May July # of Rigs in All Depths Sept Nov Jan '11 Mar May July Sept Nov Jan '12 Mar May July Sept Nov Jan '13 Mar May July Sept Nov 7 Drilling Rigs Working in U.S. Gulf of Mexico Semi-submersible = 20 Jack-up rig = 25 Platform Rig = 24 Drillship = 19 8 U.S. Gulf of Mexico New Deepwater Rigs Deepwater Rig & Type Operator Quarter Expected Seadrill West Auriga drillship BP Noble Don Taylor drillship Shell 3rd Qtr. 2013 Seadrill West Vela – drillship BP th 4 Qtr. 2013 Stena IceMAX – drillship Shell Diamond Offshore Ocean Onyx – rebuilt semi Apache Atwood Advantage - drillship Noble Energy 1st Qtr. 2014 Maersk Viking – drillship ExxonMobil Sevan Louisiana – cylinder hull LLOG Exploration Diamond Offshore Ocean Blackhawk - drillship Anadarko nd Noble Bob Douglas - drillship Anadarko 2 Qtr 2014 Maersk Valiant - drillship ConocoPhillips Pacific Sharav – drillship Chevron Diamond Offshore Ocean BlackHornet – drillship Anadarko rd Transocean Deepwater Invictus – drillship BHP Billiton 3 Qtr. 2014 Noble Sam Croft – drill ship Freeport McMoran Rowan Resolute – drillship Anadarko Seadrill West Neptune – drillship LLOG Exploration th 4 Qtr 2014 Rowan Reliance - drillship Cobalt Intl. Energy st Noble Tom Madden - drillship Freeport McMoran 1 Qtr 2015 ENSCO DS-90 – drillship Conoco Phillips 3rd Qtr 2015 9 Deepwater Appraisal Activity Deepwater Prospect Operator Map Area North Platte Cobalt Intl. Energy Garden Banks 959 Stampede(Pony)*Sanction ‘14, 1st prod.–’16 Hess Corp Green Canyon 468 Stampede(Knotty Head)*Sanction ‘14, 1st prod.–‘16 Hess Corp Green Canyon 512 Big Dog (Mad Dog B) BP Green Canyon 825 Appomattox Shell Mississippi Canyon 806 Vito Shell Mississippi Canyon 984 Gunflint Noble Energy Mississippi Canyon 948 Hadrian North ExxonMobil Keathley Canyon 918 Buckskin/Moccasin Chevron Keathley Canyon 872/736 Kaskida/Tiber/Gila BP Keathley Canyon 292/102/93 Shenandoah Anadarko Walker Ridge 52 Coronada Chevron Walker Ridge 98 10 Production Facilities Shallow Water Deepwater Production Facilities Production Facilities (less than 500 ft) (greater than 500 ft) 2647 73 Fixed Fixed SPAR Single Caisson FPSO TLP 4 Pile Caisson 11 New Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Projects st Deepwater Project Operator 1 Production Expected Olympus TLP (Mars B) {**subsea} Started production Shell Mississippi Canyon 806 1st Qtr. 2014 Jack – St. Malo Chevron 2014 Walker Ridge 718 Big Foot Chevron 2014 Walker Ridge 29 Lucius (oil/gas)/S. Hadrian (gas) Anadarko/ 2014 Keathley Canyon 875 ExxonMobil Tubular Bells Hess 2014 Mississippi Canyon 725 Delta House LLOG Exploration 2015 Mississippi Canyon 254 Olympus TLP (Mars B) {**platform} Shell 2015 Mississippi Canyon 806 Heidelberg Anadarko 2016 Green Canyon 860 Stones (**2nd FPSO in GOM) Shell 2016 Walker Ridge 508 12 Gulf of Mexico OCS Oil Production Total vs. Deepwater MM Bbls /Day 2.000 1.800 1.6 1.600 1.5 1.6 1.5 1.6 1.4 1.5 1.400 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.2 1.3 1.2 1.200 1.1 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.0 1.0 1.0 0.9 1.000 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.9 0.9 0.9 0.800 0.7 0.6 0.600 0.4 0.400 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.200 0.1 0.1 0.000 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Deepwater Portion (> 1000 ft) (est) Gulf of Mexico OCS Gas Production Total vs. Deepwater BCF / Day 16.0 14.2 14.4 14.0 13.5 13.9 13.6 13.9 14.0 13.0 13.3 12.4 12.1 12.0 11.0 10.0 8.7 8.0 7.7 8.0 6.7 6.4 6.2 6.0 5.0 4.2 3.5 3.9 3.8 3.6 4.0 3.2 3.3 3.0 3.0 2.7 2.8 2.5 2.9 2.3 2.3 2.0 1.6 1.7 2.0 0.8 1.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.0 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Total Deepwater Portion (> 1000 ft) (est) Loss of Well Control in GOM 2009-2013 1.6015% = Percentage of Loss of Well Control Per Well Drilled from 2009-2013 400 342 10 358 9 9 350 332 Control LossPer of Well 8 300 268 261 7 6 250 6 200 5 4 4 150 4 3 2 100 Year Number Of Wells Drilled Drilled Wells Of Number 2 50 1 0 0 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Wells Drilled Loss of Well Control 15 ST 220 A / Hercules 265 Walter Oil & Gas - 23 July 2013, LWC, Surface Water Depth – 154 feet Distance to Shore – 55 miles Days to complete relief well – 74 Product – Gas Development Well LWC Occurred – POOH with TCP gun 16 SS 225 B ERT/ Talos - 7 July 2013, LWC, Surface Water Depth – 146 feet Distance to Shore – 65 miles Product – Gas and condensate Development Well LWC Occurred- Abandonment procedure 17 MP 295 #1 / ENSCO 87 #1 Apache - 5 February 2013, LWC, Underground / ENS CO 87 5 #1 / ENSCO 87 5 #1 / ENSCO 87 Water Depth – 218 feet Distance to Shore – 20 miles Product - Gas Exploratory Well LWC Occurred- Kick from inclusion in salt 18 VR 356/ Rowan Louisiana En Ven Energy Ventures -30 January 2014 LWC, Shallow Gas Diversion Water Depth – 262 feet Distance to Shore- 97 miles Product – Gas Development Well LWC Occurred – POOH for wiper trip 19 Reporting Requirements Loss of Well Control GOM Loss of Well Control 10 8 6 The Bureau requires that all loss of well control be reported by 4 2 immediate oral report, per 30 CFR 250.188(a)(3) 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Trends Over the 8-year timeframe (2006-2013), the GOM averaged 5.25 Loss of Well Control per Well Drilled LWC a year. That is the equivalent of having one LWC incident 0.03 every 70 days. 0.025 0.02 2011 was a record low for LWC incidents since the release of the 0.015 0.01 incident reporting rule. However, the lowest incident rate per well 0.005 drilled was 2006. 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 LWC Types (2006-2013) Flow Underground: 8.6% GOM LWC per Million Barrels of Oil Produced Flow Surface: 34.3% 0.02 Diverter Flow: 11.4% 0.015 Surface Equipment Failure: 45.7% 0.01 0.005 In 2013, the Agency saw an GOM LWC for every 0.026 GOM wells drilled. 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 20 Synopsis of Data BSEE has 288 unique loss of well control incidents captured in our database from 1956 – 2010. Additionally, BSEE has 18 additional cases in TIMS from 2010-2013 which are not accounted for in this synopsis: 69 of 288 Incidents had a duration of 5 days (24%) 55 of 69 occurred in water depth < 300 feet (80%) 42 of 69 occurred within 50 miles of shore ≥(61%) 31 fatalities in 5 of the 69 incidents 84 injuries in 7 of the 69 incident 8 incidents were oil blowouts (12%) Max duration of the oil blowout – 141 days, 10 relief wells drilled 21 Four fatalities, thirty six injuries, lost platform and 2 drilling rigs, minor amounts of oil on beaches. 53,000 bbls estimated to be spilled. 10th and final relief well killed blowout on April 7th, 1971. Thank you for your attention. Website: www.bsee.gov .
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