Add Energy gets grant for blowout analysis study

July 20, 2023
The Ocean Energy Safety Institute has given Add Energy a grant of $354,160 to develop a methodology for standardizing blowout event consequence analysis.

Offshore staff

HOUSTON  The Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI) has given Add Energy a grant of $354,160 to develop a methodology for standardizing blowout event consequence analysis. The aim is to support consistent risk measurement of well control events.

Add Energy claims to have assessed and resolved about 85 live well incidents evaluated and to have delivered more than 1,800 blowout contingency studies.

Recently, owner ABL Group decided to combine the company’s drilling, well engineering and well control teams with engineering and software provider AGR. Read more. 

OESI, organized via an agreement between the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Department of Energy, and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, is a consortium of industry, national laboratories, NGOs and academia.

It supports development of safety and environmental improvements for energy production activities, including oil and gas, wind energy and marine energy.

07.20.2023