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Project Number 566
Date of Summary October 25, 2006
Subject Assessment of the Acceptability and safety of Using Equipment, Particularly BOP and Wellhead Components at Pressures in Excess of the Rated Working Pressure
Performing Activity WEST Engineering Services
Principal Investigator Raleigh Williamson; Robert Olsen
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Completed
Description Specific information was collected on Blowout Preventers (BOP) and Well Head Components exposed to pressures greater than the Manufacturer Allowable Working Pressure (MAWP) on platforms in the Gulf of Mexico Region.

Objectives:

  1. organize a Joint Industry Project and contact API working groups on the same issues;
     
  2. review API and ISO standards for maximum BOP test pressures;
     
  3. propose safety standards for equipment working above the MAWP; limitations/ applications.
Progress Completed

Reports
AA (67 pages) File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) . Assessment of the Acceptability and safety of Using Equipment, Particularly BOP and Wellhead Components at Pressures in Excess of the Rated Working Pressure. Michael Montgomery, West Engineering, Brookshire,TX, October, 10, 2006. Attachments available upon request.
 

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