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Project Number 25
Date of Summary March 31, 1982
Subject Overpressures Developed by Shaped Explosive Charges Used to Remove Wellheads
Performing Activity Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, Maryland
Principal Investigator Mr. Donald Phillips
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description On request for technology support, the Research and Development Program is assisting the U.S. Geological Survey Area Office, Anchorage, to quantify the environmental effects from blowing-off wellheads using shaped charges.
Progress Complete. Rodney Smith, Anchorage, provided technical information which was used by Naval Surface Weapons Center to perform theoretical and experimental analysis of the overpressures created by detonating shaped charges 15 feet below the mud line on given wellheads. Half scale experiments were conducted in the lower Potomac river. Project is complete and information was transferred to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for a study on the effects of explosives on fish. See Project No. 44.
Reports
AA (42 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Goatner, J. F., Fish-Kill Ranges for Wellhead Severance Explosives, Preliminary Study, Naval Surface Weapons Center Memorandum Report, April 1, 1981.
AB (16 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . O'Keefe, D. J., Marine Life Literature Search for Gulf of Alaska, Naval Surface Weapons Center Memorandum Report, June 1981.
AC (27 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Heathcote, T. B., An Experimental Program to Determine the Environmental Impact of Explosive Removal of Oil Wellheads, Explosives Dynamics Branch, Naval Surface Weapons Center, (undated).
 

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