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Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
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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. |
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| Description |
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AA (42 pages)
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Goatner, J. F., Fish-Kill Ranges
for Wellhead Severance Explosives, Preliminary Study, Naval Surface Weapons Center
Memorandum Report, April 1, 1981. |
| AB (16 pages)
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O'Keefe, D. J., Marine Life
Literature Search for Gulf of Alaska, Naval Surface Weapons Center Memorandum Report, June
1981. |
| AC (27 pages)
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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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