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re: Drill falls down the hole on an oil rig
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:02 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:02 am to Street Hawk
Time to go fishing
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Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:02 am to ChineseBandit58
An overshot sort of works like a chinese finger trap, you have a guide or hook on the bottom so you can rotate it if needed to get the drill pipe off the wall of the casing or open hole then slide the overshot over the pipe. Once engaged you can hopefully just pull it free.
Overshot is always first run you want to make so you still have to option to run wireline below the top of fish to cut if needed. Next option would be to go in with a "spear" which spears into the pipe. If those two don't work, you're talking a washpipe situation, milling situation, etc. Depending on what you have stuck in the hole.
Depending on the situation you have, sometimes it's cheaper to cement up what you left in the hole and sidetrack to drill that section over. With high spread rates of deepwater rigs, fishing jobs can get expensive quick.
Overshot is always first run you want to make so you still have to option to run wireline below the top of fish to cut if needed. Next option would be to go in with a "spear" which spears into the pipe. If those two don't work, you're talking a washpipe situation, milling situation, etc. Depending on what you have stuck in the hole.
Depending on the situation you have, sometimes it's cheaper to cement up what you left in the hole and sidetrack to drill that section over. With high spread rates of deepwater rigs, fishing jobs can get expensive quick.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:16 am to JL
Not drill bit but work over tool .. been involved in the cleanup… overshot tried and tried and tried.. finally had a bunch of milling bits brought out and just started chewing it up.. and yes we actually did run a magnet ( lots of times)…. Came up in lots of little pieces..everyone got a souvenir … we were sorta luck as we had already drilled past the zone of interest .. cleaned out enough so we could get a perforating gun past the zone of interest and called it a day.. yup fishing crew made bank on that job.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:16 am to ChineseBandit58
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:17 am to redstick13
Was that a lift sub?
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:42 am to Nado Jenkins83
Looked like a production string to me. It was lightweight whatever it was. I got to unlatch like that on purpose once to leave some old production string in a well we were doing a P&A on.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 8:43 am to Nado Jenkins83
I was on a rig that dropped the drill string in 5000 feet of water. Something about a tool which in order to unlock and separate you have to do a sequence of steps, which was done inadvertently during normal operations.
ROV went down and found a spaghetti mess on the seafloor.
ROV went down and found a spaghetti mess on the seafloor.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 9:27 am to redstick13
I watched a driller during covid tag bottom at 550 fph. That was fun
Somehow they got off on their pipe count. 10k feet of drill pipe and bha trashed.
Yea not a lift sub. Watched it again whatever it was it was atleast 6 feet long.
Also title of thread insinuates to me the driller fell in the hole.
I know I wasn't the only one
Somehow they got off on their pipe count. 10k feet of drill pipe and bha trashed.
Yea not a lift sub. Watched it again whatever it was it was atleast 6 feet long.
Also title of thread insinuates to me the driller fell in the hole.
I know I wasn't the only oneThis post was edited on 3/23/25 at 9:30 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 9:39 am to Street Hawk
Dumbass didn’t set the slips before opening the elevators.
Posted on 3/23/25 at 9:49 am to Street Hawk
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:11 am to Nado Jenkins83
I had my LinkedIn open earlier today and stumbled upon this drama playing out in public with Altitude and a former DD of theirs claiming sexual harrasment. You see this yet?
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 10:12 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:29 am to JL
Fishing ops was always the best part about being third party. You just sat around and did jack shite while they tried to retrieve it for a couple days
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:31 am to redstick13
No i haven't.
The DD was victim?
The DD was victim?
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:32 am to Nado Jenkins83
Yea. She claims her supervisor harrased her on the phone with her mom listening. High drama. There is another person claiming one of their MWD hands was sending his wife around the field nude to market her onlyfans account.
This post was edited on 3/23/25 at 10:34 am
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:33 am to Nado Jenkins83
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:37 am to redstick13
Damn.
My first company we had DDs dogging an LWD chick. I'm taking anyone that got sent to the rig was fricking her. All over the trailer too apparently. Company walked in on her and a DD one day and he got ran off. She never got in trouble over it. All those DDs got yelled at. No other punishments. This was northest 2010
My first company we had DDs dogging an LWD chick. I'm taking anyone that got sent to the rig was fricking her. All over the trailer too apparently. Company walked in on her and a DD one day and he got ran off. She never got in trouble over it. All those DDs got yelled at. No other punishments. This was northest 2010
Posted on 3/23/25 at 10:59 am to baldona
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So there’s 3rd party companies that you call in to retrieve this?
Yep.
And if they can’t get it…after a very expensive attempt, you’re possibly looking at having to plug that wellbore and drill a new one. Yikes!
Posted on 3/23/25 at 11:11 am to ragincajun03
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And if they can’t get it…after a very expensive attempt, you’re possibly looking at having to plug that wellbore and drill a new one. Yikes!
Yeesh.
What’s the typical cost for an extraction?
Posted on 3/23/25 at 11:26 am to 0x15E
Fishing job will run you around $150k but you also have all the rig and service company costs that are still racking up while fishing.
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