2016-2019 Well Control Problems
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District | Date of Incident | Operator | Lease/Facility Name | Lease/ID | API # | Drill Permit | Well # | Field Name | County | Fire | H2S | Industry (Injury) | Industry (Death) | Remarks |
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02 | 07/11/2019 | Finger Oil & Gas, Inc. | Drushel Lease | 265227 | 239-33557 | 1 | Carmichael (2500) | Jackson | N | N | 0 | 0 | While pumping mud during plugging they encountered pressure. In the morning the well was blowing gas, sand and water. | |
8A | 07/12/2019 | Tabula Rasa Energy, LLC | Seminole, East (San Andres) | 60717 | 50 | Seminole, East (San Andres) | Gaines | N | Y | 0 | 0 | Evacuated residents and closed CR 107. Stuffing box blew out because BOP and rams had washed out. | ||
02 | 07/04/2019 | Mission River Systems, Inc. | Urbanczyk | 180212 | 255-31175 | 1 | Person (Edwards) | Karnes | N | N | 0 | 0 | Oprphaned well pressured up. Replaced well heaad and remediated area. | |
02 | 5/28/2019 | Capital Star Oil & Gas, Inc. | Bertha Anderson Gas Unit | 285-34107 | 851949 | 4 | Mont (Wilcox 10,900) | Lavaca | N | N | 0 | 0 | while tripping back into the hole with a new drill bit near 5,100’ (Current TD at approximately 10,540’) the well took a slight kick. | |
02 | 4/30/2019 | 38 Oil & Gas, L.L.C. | Rooke, P.H. | 147018 | 391-03009 | 17 | Refugio, New (2450) | Refugio | N | N | 0 | 0 | EPC attempted to remove a bull plug from the master valve, but when they did, the tubing snapped of where the tubing was leaking. The well is now blowing fully open to the atmosphere. EPC will attempt to spear into the well and attempt to bullhead into the tubing to kill it with brine. | |
08 | 4/25/2019 | Resolute Natural Res. Co., LLC | Ranger | 283915 | 389-36240 | Phantom (Wolfcamp) | Reeves | N | Y | 0 | 0 | The industry incident occurred during workover operations. The BOP was being installed and the uncontrolled event occurred. Per the operator, there is no gas coming from the well, but RRC H2S Fields and Concentrations Listing states average concentration is 543ppm for the Phantom (Wolfcamp) Field. | ||
09 | 3/4/2019 | Extech Operating, LLC | McDonald | 33809 | 33735466 | 1 | Newport, S.(Bend Congl.) | Montague | N | N | 0 | 0 | The well head failed causing 2 joints of tubing and the well head to be blown into the crown of the rig. Commission inspector Bill Hudson was dispatched to the site. | |
02 | 2/23/2019 | Enerquest Operating LLC | Roberts Lease | 06893 | 255-31112 | 1 | Edwards | Karnes | N | Y | 0 | 0 | APPROXIMATELY 1300. SCOTT CAMPBELL FROM ENERQUEST OPERATING L.L.C. REPORTS BLOWOUT ON ROBERTS WELL #1. ADJACENT WELL NEXT TO ROBERTS LEASE REPORTEDLY PRESSURED UP ROBERTS #1 CASING BLOWING OFF GATE VALVE/BALLVALVE. | |
08 | 2/12/2019 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Yates Fiedl Unit | 24061 | 371-34159 | 49A98 | Yates | Pecos | N | Y | 0 | 0 | The cause of the blowout is unknown. Unknown volume of release at this time. H2S is present. Per RRC Mainframe, H-9 states 28000ppm H2S. Kinder Morgan has quartered off approximately a 1-mile radius, allowing access to only Kinder Morgan and RRC personnel. | |
08 | 12/13/2018 | Colgate Operating, LLC | King David MIPA Unit # 1H | 830360 | 1H | Phantom (Wolfcamp) | Reeves | N | Y | 0 | 0 | The well has just been frac'd and is full of water. Kill plugs were set last night and were tested. Initially, the plugs held and the well was opened for a few hours. The flow was noticed at approximately 3:00 a.m. Per the operator, there is no gas coming from the well. | ||
04 | 10/20/2018 | Laredo Energy LLC | Reuthinger | 479-43946 | 837264 | NO13H | Hawkville (Eagleford Shale) | Webb | N | N | 0 | 0 | DURING A SQUEZZE JOB THE PACKER GAVE OUT AND THE TIW VALVE GAVE OUT | |
08 | 10/16/2018 | Sheridan Production Company, LLC | University Consolidated XII | 23161 | 033-2389 | 44W | Furhman-Mascho | Andrews | N | Y | 0 | 0 | A mechanical failure on the wellhead of the UNIVERSITY CONSOLIDATED XII #44W caused produced water to come out of the wellhead at a high volume. Per the operator there is no gas coming from the well, but our records show there is an H9 on this lease for 25000 ppm. | |
1/02 | 8/28/2018 | Cinco Operating Company, LLC | Baty SWD | 18065 | 127-33023 | 1 | Pearsall (Austin Chalk) | Dimmit | N | N | 2 | 0 | Operator put workover rig (Basic Energy Services) on well and bled pressure off the well. While working on removing the last bolts out of the wellhead flange, the well blew out. | |
01/02 | 8/28/2018 | Minexprod LLC | McCoy Blanding | 26837 | 291-32878 | 1 | Cleveland (Cockfield 5600) | Liberty | N | N | 0 | 0 | Received notification of a well blowout out the choke nipple past the wing valve on the “T” of the wellhead. The Operator has been flow testing the well the past few days into a tank. Well began blowing saltwater, crude, and gas out the wing valve which caused the choke nipple to cut out. The wing valve has been shut-in and the well is secured. Oil / Water ratio on well is estimated to be 97% : 3%. An unknown volume of fluids were released and are contained within a 20 ft by 15 ft area around the well. Local Fire Dept was notified but did not respond. | |
03 | 7/20/2018 | Verdun Oil & Gas LLC | Somme | 477-31082 | 840935 | 1H | Giddings (Austin Chalk-3) | Washington | N | N | 0 | 0 | Operator was drilling at 9,000 feet and it took a kick. | |
03 | 6/27/2018 | Lewis Petro Properties, Inc. | Appling PSA B | 283-36275 | 837042 | 21H | Hawkville (Eagleford Shale) | La Salle | N | N | 0 | 0 | While drilling out their frac plugs with coiled tubing, after the coiled tubing drilled Plug #21 at 13,920' and going down to Plug #22 which was 200 ft. further, the well started blowing out at the flange between frac tree and transition spool at 5 1/8" 10M connection. | |
01 | 6/14/2018 | MDC Texas Operators | Runaway Ghost | 389-37120 | 839623 | 1HM | Phantom (Wolfcamp) | Reeves | Y | N | 0 | 0 | it is suspected that he spud rig, used to set conductor or surface pipe, tapped a shallow localized gas pocket. The district office is monitoring the situation. | |
08 | 4/19/2018 | Foothills Texas, Inc. | Simms-Schilling | 1799 | 201-31755 | 48 | Goose Creek | Harris | N | N | 0 | 0 | During normal injection operations, the larken head was observed to be leaking at the seal of the production casing and tubing. Salt water and sand was found releasing and impacting the surrounding location. | |
03 | 3/18/2018 | EOG Resources | Baker Deforest Unit | 16046 | 177-32474 | 12H | Eagleville (Eagle Ford -1) | Gonzales | Y | N | 0 | 0 | Unknown cause of fire, fire is emanating from wellhead from an unknown orifice. An automated pneumatic shutoff wing valve was successfully closed, isolating the well from production facility down stream. At least three (3) nearby families have been evacuated out of an abundance of caution and put up in hotels for the night, but there is no known immediate threat to the general public. | |
01/02 | 1/26/2018 | EOG Resources | Cooper Unit | 255-35599 | 830285 | 2H | Eagleville (Eagle Ford- 2) | Karnes | N | N | 0 | 0 | EOG finished frac'ing and running tubing in hole when well "kicked'. The packer gave way and pressure was received at the surface. | |
01/02 | 1/19/2018 | Southern Exploration, Inc. | Block 7 | 009-73124 | 833718 | 1 | Archer county regular | Archer | N | N | 0 | 0 | The well site geologist was on the shale shaker waiting to catch samples when the mud flow increased rapidly and started blowing oil and gas cut mud up through the rotary table about 40' up in the derrick. Rig personnel closed the blow out preventer after approximately 20 minutes. | |
09 | 12/1/2017 | South Oil, Inc. | Wilmeth B | 19042 | 163-33832 | 1 | Pearsall (Buda Lime) | Frio | N | N | 0 | 0 | South Oil, Inc was testing the well when pressure had developed and the packing on the stuffing box failed, causing the release of gas and produced fluids sometime on the morning of 12/20/17. There were no injuries, however as a precaution the section of Hwy 85 nearest to the well was closed off. | |
01 | 12/18/2017 | Devon Energy Production Co, LP | Slay, C.W. (AW) | 439-37135 | 829994 | 18H | Newark, East (Barnett Shale) | Tarrant | N | N | 0 | 0 | Devon Energy Reported an acid flowback to surface through a stuck/broke valve. | |
5 | 12/7/2017 | Occidental Permian, Ltd. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit | Hale | N | Y | 0 | 0 | At approximately 4:30 pm, the stripper rubbers failed on the BOP causing the uncontrolled release of CO2 and approximately 5 barrels of produced water. H2S monitors and personnel were set up in the area during the release | |||||
08/8A | 12/6/2017 | IWR Operating | Panther Exploration | 157-33230 | 831853 | 1 | Blue Ridge | Fort Bend | N | N | 0 | 0 | Operator reported that they are experiencing well fluid control issues. The surface casing was successfully set and cement circulated to surface. However, while drilling to TD, operator encountered gas pocket and incurred a kick which has allowed well to begin blowing gas, oil, water, and drilling fluids. | |
03 | 9/7/2017 | Hilcorp Energy Company | West Ranch (41-A/98-A Cons) | 386310 | 239-33653 | 2119 | West Ranch (41-A & 98-A Cons) | Jackson | N | N | 0 | 0 | A workover rig was on the well on 9/6/2017, the tubing was unseated and pulled from the permanent packer in the well and tubing was hung off of annular BOP stack, then shut-in overnight. Overnight, apparently the annular BOP rams failed and the tubing dropped, causing well fluids to flow to the surface. The blowout took place at approximately 0230 on Sept. 7, 2017. The well is in a CO2 injection field and CO2 with some water is believed to be the fluid that is spraying out. Less than one barrel of fluid is on the ground. | |
02 | 7/21/2017 | NBL Permian LLC | Howard State 2-25-8 | 45383 | 389-33385 | 1 | Wolfbone (Trend Area) | Reeves | N | N | 0 | 0 | An uncontrolled well situation was not reported at the time, only a spill. Glenn Gainey inspected the well and it is currently spewing gas through a flange on the wellhead. Pressure at the wellhead is unknown. Some fluid has pooled on location. Boots and Coots is on location now with 400 bbl of 12.5 ppg mud. NBL has set up a safety corridor around the well. Total Safety is on location as well. Boots and coots plans to kill the well around 3:00 pm today. | |
8 | 7/13/2017 | Parsley Energy Operations, LLC | Paige | 383-39785 | 821002 | 12A-13A | Spraberry (Trend Area) | Reagan | N | N | 0 | 0 | Workover rig was going in the hole with tubing and stacked out hard on bottom and bent tubing where the crew could not close the BOP. At that time the well started to blow oil and gas | |
7C | 6/6/2017 | Karbuhn Oil Company | Pogo Fee | 17935 | 245-31735 | 1 | Herbert (h-3) | Jefferson | N | Y | 0 | 0 | They had produced water leaking into the cellar and had what appeared to be communication between their casing strings. Sent notification to RRC inspector Carroll Mayfield to inspect the well. Mr. Mayfield noted that the well was leaking about 30-bbls of produced water an hour and a small amount of gas. Karbuhn had contracted Cudd Pressure Control to kill the well. | |
3 | 5/16/2017 | Cummins & Walker Oil Co. Inc. | Welder, M.S. Est. | 172091 | 469-33366 | 3 | Lonnie Glasscock (Oakville, LO.) | Victoria | N | N | 0 | 0 | During workover the wellhead and tubing were in poor codition and remedial work worsened the condition casusing a total loss of the wellhead. | |
2 | 4/20/2017 | Hilcorp Energy Company | Baer-Franklin | 321-32403 | 821323 | 2 | Bear Ranch (Tex-Miss Cons) | Matagorda | N | N | 0 | 0 | Well finished drilling and during flow testing a loss of control occurred. | |
3 | 4/19/2017 | Fengolio Oil Company | Cone, Rachel Lease | 30293 | 337-33232 | 5 | Newark, East (Barnett Shale) | Montague | N | N | 0 | 0 | The Tubing broke at the well head during the inspection. Well began to flow | |
9 | 3/14/2017 | Occidental Permian LTD. | Anton-Irish Clearfork Unit | 189-00165 | 304 | 65W | Anton-Irish | Hale | N | N | 0 | 0 | an uncontrolled well from a workover that had produced water and water based drill mud going into a dry Playa lake. Well No. 65W lost control on March 14, 2017 at noon for about 24 hours when the nipple broke on the wellhead during a workover where they were pumping mud downhole. Well No. 65W is a CO2/Water injection well. They pumped 14 ppg mud to kill the well and then replaced the nipple. The well is under control now. They are preparing to replace the wellhead and run the packer and get an H-5 test. The amount of fluid lost was 5000 barrels (bbl.) including both water and mud. They had recovered at the time of the call 1590 bbls of the both water and drill mud and were still recovering. | |
8A | 1/21/2017 | Anadarko E&P Onshore LLC | Silvertip 76-17 P | 301-32904 | 815363 | 1H | Phantom (Wolfcamp) | Loving | N | N | 0 | 0 | Well had an incident during facture stimulation. | |
8 | 1/3/2017 | Le Norman Operating | War Admiral 8 | 211-35556 | 821234 | 3H | Hemphill (Douglas) | Hemphill | N | N | 0 | 0 | While drilling the well started receiving gas kicks | |
10 | 12/28/2016 | H-M Resource Management, Inc. | Anderson Lucrese | 209012 | 481-34733 | 8 | Egypt (3800) | Wharton | N | N | 0 | 0 | Operator attempting to plug well and pulled the packer lose when well came in. | |
03 | 12/6/2016 | Gordy Oil Company | Johnston, H.B. | 291-32899 | 820395 | 1 | Hardin, South (Wilcox 12700) | Liberty | N | N | 4 | 0 | Well was leaking gas. Injury occurred when metal plate blew off the top of the dry hole tree. | |
03 | 11/10/2016 | Forge Energy, LLC | Monument A28-6 | 165-38419 | 817236 | 1H | Tex-Mex, SE (Wichita Albany) | Gaines | N | N | 0 | 0 | During the 14th stage of a 21 stage frac the production casing moved up hole several feet at the same time the surface casing failed. The production casing and frac stack then fell over | |
08 | 11/8/2016 | Enwater Operating, LLC | Easy Jet | 46873 | 389-34742 | 1 | Collie (Delaware) | Reeves | N | Y | 0 | 0 | Increase in volume caused the uncontrolled release. | |
08 | 10/19/2016 | Pearl Resources Operationg Co. | Garnet State | 371-39426 | 818111 | 4 | Wolfbone (Trend Area) | Pecos | N | Y | 0 | 0 | Unprepared to hit a heavy flow while drilling. | |
08 | 10/24/2016 | Enervest Operating LLC | Childrens Home 2 | 483-33092 | 265280 | 4H | Frye Ranch (consolidated) | Wheeler | N | N | 0 | 0 | Well is being worked over and had wellhead removed when well kicked and blew out. | |
10 | 10/17/2016 | Three Rivers | Ladybird SWD | 109-32953 | 815536 | 1 | Ford, West (Wolfcamp) | Culberson | N | Y | 0 | 0 | There is already surface casing 13 3/8” @ 558’ & circ, they TD’d at 2775’ and was going to run intermediate 9 5/8” when the stripping rubber failed inside the casing shoe. The operator had an uncontrolled flow with H2S and also a spot 150’ north of the rig started flowing water with H2S also. | |
08 | 9/30/2016 | Lamay Corporation | State Tract 117 | 58974 | 007-30101 | 1 | Bartell Pass (Frio M) | Aransas | N | N | 0 | 0 | well leaking dry gas into the atmosphere. The leaking well was reported to the TGLO by a boater in Aransas Bay. | |
04 | 9/24/2016 | Kinder Morgan Production Co LLC | Goldsmith-Landreth/San Andres unit | 135-43426 | 817824 | 201AW | Goldsmith | Ector | N | Y | 0 | 0 | new drillwell going uncontrolled starting at 1 am on September 24, 2016. They had shut down W Scharbauer Street which is about 800’ north of the well. Kinder Morgan had Wild Well Control contacted and heading there. | |
08 | 9/20/2016 | Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation | Weldon Shcorp-prickly pear unit | 271065 | 163-33670 | Indio Tanks (Pearsall) | Frio | N | N | 0 | 0 | Producing well (no active work was being performed on well at time of discovery) developed uncontrolled leak of dry gas in KTH flange at slips. | ||
01 | 7/13/2016 | Lone Star NGL Mont Belvieu | Central Terminal Lease | 12081 | 1 | Salt dome storage | Chambers | N | N | 0 | 0 | Leaking salt dome. | ||
03 | 7/6/2016 | Cross Timbers Energy, LLC | Penwell Unit | 23007 | 135-01481 | 2388W | Penwell | Ector | N | Y | 0 | 0 | uncontrolled gas release from an unknown source breaking out to the surface from the outside of the surface casing of the above well. | |
08 | 7/1/2016 | EOG Resources, Inc. | Kleberg, RJ TR Stillman | 258933 | 261-31544 | 505 | Tordilla (Deep Cons.) | Kenedy | N | N | 0 | 0 | During plugging operations, while attempting to cut and pull with casing jacks the 7-5/8” intermediated casing from approximately 50’ below the surface casing shoe depth (2,516’), the weld between the pulling nipple and the casing broke and the well began to flow. The well was full with 9.5-ppg plugging mud for well control purposes. The well flowed mud, followed by produced water for approximately one hour, until the flowing pressure had decreased enough that the pulling tools could be laid down, and the casinghead and master valve could be bolted back onto the wellhead. The shut-in wellhead pressure was 50-psi and the well is now under control. | |
04 | 6/29/2016 | Enerquest Operating, LLC | Brysch | 258318 | 255-00718 | 1 | Panna Maria (Edwards) | Karnes | N | Y | 0 | 0 | it appears that during one of Encana’s frac jobs the pump jack on the Brysch #1 locked up and casing pressure increased on the Brysch #1, causing significant increase of water production into tanks, ultimately compromising the stuffing box seals, and water is now leaking through the stuffing box into the air and onto the ground. Enerquest personnel are not able to bring the well under control. Encana has agreed to take over kill operations of the well and is currently moving equipment onto location to perform top-down bullhead kill operation with oil-based mud. Encana states no elevated H2S levels have been detected thus far. H-9 on file from Enerquest shows H2S concentration at 25,600 ppm at 500 mcf/day. Both 100 ppm and 500 ppm ROE do not contain a public area or a public road. At least one nearby house has been evacuated as a precautionary measure. County Sheriff is controlling roadway, no shutdown of any public roads yet. | |
01/02 | 6/26/2016 | Equistar Chemicals, LP | Equistar Chemicals, LP | 10752 | 071-81605 | 7 | Barbers Hill (Storage Cavern) | Chambers | Y | N | 0 | 0 | pressurized cavern storage well in which communication to the surface has been observed. | |
03 | 6/2/2016 | XTO Energy Inc. | Cordona Lake Consolidated | 20582 | 103-32391 | 62W | Cordona Lake | Crane | N | N | 0 | 0 | The top section of the wellhead fell off due to a faulty wellhead per XTO. CO2 is blowing up approximately 20’ into the air with some produced water being released. XTO has well control equipment in route via a third party well control company. H2S and lower explosive limit (LEL) monitors have been placed around the location. None has been detected. The location is under 24 hour supervision. Well control operations are to begin tomorrow morning. Well is located at or near Juan Cordona Lake shoreline, an intermittent or salt lake, which currently contains water. | |
08 | 5/3/2016 | Mesa Operating, LLC | Jimmy Marshall | 307-31187 | 813672 | 2 | Lohn (Strawn 900) | McCulloch | N | N | 0 | 0 | Well blowing mud ~ 7 ft. above the rig floor, with mud around the well bore. They were pulling out of the hole preparing to RIH with casing. TD of the well is 994’. There is 450 of drill collars in the hole with a wiper rubber on the drill pipe. Southwest fluids from Abilene is on location with additional mud to kill the well. Well is located ~ 150’ north of CR 504. This is a single string completion. The cementers and casing are on location. | |
7C | 4/6/2016 | Apache Corporation | Magpie Unit | 301-32807 | 812057 | Phantom (Wolfcamp) | Loving | N | N | 0 | 0 | completed, frac'd, and was blowing the well down when it plugged up. They currently have a rig on well that had been working to unplug the well. The BOP's are shut and the well is blowing out through a connection that failed below the BOP's. | ||
08 | 4/2/2016 | Occidental Permian LTD | Gains Wasson Clearfork Unit | 63524 | 165-00783 | 6513W | Wasson 72 | Gaines | N | N | 0 | 0 | Truck hit an injection line, causing the tubing to split above the wellhead on the water injection well. The water blew above the top of the tubing until a rig was moved in. | |
8A | 3/28/2016 | Energy Transfer Company | Fields | 57629 | 237-30616 | 13 | Bryson, South (Strawn 1700) | Jack | N | N | 0 | 0 | . A joint of 2 3/8” tubing that was in the well shot up thru the derrick floor and landed approximately 15' from floor and stuck in to the ground. Rig crew hands were able to shut blind rams on Blow Out Preventer (BOP) with pipe wrenches to gain control of the well. Well was out of control for approximately 10 minutes. NO INJURIES were sustained by anyone. | |
09 | 3/5/2016 | Chisholm Operating, Inc. | Baugh | 19163 | 413-00444 | Baugh (Strawn) | Schleicher | N | N | 0 | 0 | Heater treater pop-off valve did not reset making dump valves inoperable. Fluid began to run out of the top of the heater treater. |