Cudd's coil tubbing rig

Main Pass 98

January 2005
 

An SLP toppled by Hurricane Ivan but still live; nothing but a pair (two string well) of SSSCV's holding back a couple thousand PSI of downhole pressure.  The structure was lying horizontally on bottom and the stringers were suspected kinked in the vicinity of natural bottom. The well was communicating across both strings and the inner casings. Day after day of weather had the company men climbing the walls and the cooks scrambling to order more ice cream for the divers. The plan was to run coil tubing past the kinks and kill the well by pumping concrete down it.

Dive Sup #1 - JC Roat

The coil tubing tree being set up on top of 130' or so of flexible riser which started vertically and transitioned to horizontal before tieing in to the BOP on bottom.

Red hat Kivi

S Moore getting in

Metal

J Jeansonne & S Moore

Seven dive hats and a leg

Comm check

Len Greer of Cameron explains how the slip subs mount in the dual string adapter. This adapter was the blue piece in the picture below. Had to install it sideways of course.

Here's a closeup of that leg:
Leg by the Snyder Brothers
Artwork by J Vindeola

As far as anybody knows
C Anthony is the only one-legged diver in the Gulf and
he still runs circles around the other tenders.

Dive Sup #2 - D Cunniff

The BOP had to be installed
sideways too.

So days and days of diving as directed around the weather and then the coil tubing couldn't get past the kink in the short string. So dismount everything and recover the BOP to the surface. Remove and rotate the adapter to go into the long string, re-install it, and then re-install the BOP.

Did it work...

...hell no it didn't work.

Couldn't get down the long string either. Ever seen a company man just stare into space and talk to himself? The customer got permission from MMS to leave it for now and come back when the weather is going to be better. Sometime soon, Aquatica will be back to kick this well in the ass. We always win.