Oil well fire capper/snuffer

Details Oil well fire capper/snuffer Oil well fire capper/snuffer

1991-10-01

1993-04-06

Marmor, Charles A.

Fire extinguishers

Processes

Of extinguishing fire

166312, 169 52, 169 69, A62C 306

Patent

active

051994992

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method for extinguishing oil well fires by plugging a wellhead pipe from which oil, gas and a fire flame front are emanating including centering and fluid ballasting a capper over the wellhead pipe, forcibly inserting the capper into the wellhead pipe to seal the wellhead pipe and introducing mud through the capper into the wellhead pipe to "kill" the fire. The apparatus includes the capper, fluid ballast and pressure exerting apparatus and plugging apparatus.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1918161 (1933-07-01), Whitwam
patent: 4336843 (1982-06-01), Petty
"Kuwaiti Well Control Campaign Progressing" Oil and Gas Journal, May 13, 1991, pp. 34 and 35.
"What's Happening in Drilling", World Oil, Sep. 1991, p. 25.
"Capping Blowouts from Iran's Eight Year War", World Oil, May 1991, pp. 44-48.
"Fired-Up Inventors Have a Plan", Los Angeles Times, Business Section, p. 1, col. 2, Jul. 13, 1991.

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