- Author
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Gore, J. P.
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Evans, D. D.
- Title
- Development of Hazard Assessment and Suppression Technology for Oil and Gas Well Blowout and Diverter Fires.
- Coporate
- Maryland Univ., College Park
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Book or Conf
- Minerals Management Service. Technology Assessment and Research Program for Offshore Minerals Operations. OCS Study MMS 91-0057. 1991 Report. Biennial Report of the Technology Assessment and Research Program, 7th. 1991,
Reston, VA,
Gregory, J. B.; Smith, C. E.; Tennyson, E. J., Editors,
27-32 p.,
1991
- Keywords
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offshore drilling
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offshore platforms
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hazard assessment
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well fires
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blowout fires
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fire suppression
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heat flux
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jet flames
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heat release rate
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water
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water injection
- Identifiers
- flame trajectories; diverter fires
- Abstract
- Objective: To develop blowout fire suppression technology for offshore oil and gas operations. This project is a collaboration between the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland. Several aspects of the oil and gas well blowout and diverter fires are being addressed. These include: [1] prediction of radiative heat fluxes from natural gas jet flames spanning heat release rates from 10 kW to 200 MW (Gore and others, 1990a and Gore and others, 1986); [2] demonstration of the efficacy of using water to control radiation loading and even suppressing a fire with water injected from a point near the well head (Evans and Pfenning, 1985); [3] development of extensions to treat the two phase, two fuel aspects of oil well blowout fires (Gore and others, 1991 and Gore and others, 1990a, Gore and others, 1990b and Gore and Skinner, 1991); and [4] predictions of horizontal flame trajectories as a basis for analysis of diverter fires (see Gore and Jian, 1991).