Actinia Oil Rig Blowout

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May 18, 2012
cuteulala1 Says:
Replace that fucking cable dont wait for it to cause a disaster!!!!!!

Aug 16, 2011
lewiswaterworth1 Says:
i work on this rig now.its off the coast of miri.so weird seeing it on youtube

Mar 31, 2011
gseator Says:
Don't blame the Geologist. He kept telling them to stop drilling and set casing. They hit a loss zone, the well kicked and the gas came up a fault. Initially it was around 500m from the rig but worked its way back towards the rig until it was coming up from under the rig. Everyone was evacuated and it eventually bridged off but not before doing a lot of damage to the rig. As you can see the BOP was snapped off and never seen again. Incidentally the co. man got fired for stealing the ships bell.

Feb 17, 2011
J042E Says:
you cant even spell practiced. SHUT UP.

Sep 9, 2010
dimebag4ever426 Says:
off shore drilling should not be practised. instead, we kill all the saudis, and take their oil.

Jul 16, 2010
KWEKOSHKUKI12 Says:
1:18 the oil rig had to take a shit lmao

Jul 15, 2010
GeorgeJansen Says:
...thank you

Jul 15, 2010
NickelbackPWNS Says:
it has an outer casing, so when they run the tubing it just sets right in

Apr 29, 2010
WellingtonSS85 Says:
I'm sorry, but what exactly happened there? Was there a blow-out where the rig got moving from above the well head, shut it and moved a little meters from there? And what's the stuff coming to the surface? Mud, gas, oil or all of this mixed?!

Apr 28, 2010
emtrixdk Says:
whats happening in this video? oil bubble to surface?

Apr 2, 2010
xorro83 Says:
I wonder if its the 8-1/2" Pilot they were drilling? :)

Apr 2, 2010
xorro83 Says:
Happen to us once on a semi, tried killing it, no success. Drop sting and move off (pull anchors) few meters from initial spud. Wasn't this much of a volume though.

Apr 2, 2010
xorro83 Says:
That does look like some big volume of shallow gas! Time to beat up em Seismic / Sparker surveys.

Mar 11, 2010
kucingkopi Says:
lucky that rig was a semi submersible, if that was a jack up the rig would have been drown

Feb 27, 2010
prezzogusto Says:
thgat is a gas container not a gas pocket

Feb 27, 2010
prezzogusto Says:
That's an underground blow up

Feb 1, 2010
Sebastian3103 Says:
how is it possible?

Jan 29, 2010
Iraqveterankill4real Says:
ouch that was a loss of lots of money!

Oct 31, 2009
calelandess Says:
hahahaha

Oct 1, 2009
amitparab4u Says:
Is that The actinia which was for Reliance in KG basin in 2004 to 2008

Sep 25, 2009
rrenne Says:
the seabed in most of the continental slopes is covered by methanhydrate (methan, surrounded and hold together by ice). it is stabilised merely by the pressure and temperature in a depth of 500-2000m. once the circumstances change (raise of temperature or loss of pressure, sometimes caused by oil rig work), methan can leak from its ice-cage and rise towards water surface, where it reaches enough temperature to inflate itself. then, the water seams to boil.

Sep 11, 2009
nhughe Says:
that looks like one hell of a gas pocket. I wonder how many mmcf that would have been?

Video Details

Offshore blowout involving Actinia semi-submersible oil rig, off Vietnam in February 1993. Compilation of footage from various helicopters, planes and the rig. More