Deepwater Blowout Intervention Workshop

Notice to Lessees and Operators (NTL) of Federal Oil, Gas,
and Sulphur Leases in the Outer Continental Shelf

NOTE: NTL 2002-N08

is available for download in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) in cooperation with the Global Petroleum Research Institute (GPRI) and the Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC) of Texas A&M University, announces an afternoon workshop on Deepwater Well Intervention on August 15, 2002, in Houston Texas. The workshop provides an opportunity to hear from the project managers of the Texas A&M Deepwater Well Intervention Joint Venture.

The project is a GPRI joint venture, funded in part by MMS through OTRC, to develop new guidelines for blowout containment in deepwater drilling/completion/workover operations. The project is intended to develop more relevant procedures and practices for blowout containment than is currently available. MMS believes that this research project will help in understanding what may occur in the event of a deepwater blowout and could provide possible solutions for containing a deepwater blowout. We welcome and encourage your participation in this workshop.

Workshop Details
Where:	10^th Floor of the Texas A&M Institute of Biosciences and Technology, 2121 West Holcombe, Houston, Texas (corner of Shamrock Lane and West Holcombe in the Houston Medical Center)
Date/Time:	August 15, 2002
Cost:	No cost
Who should attend:	Deepwater drilling managers, drilling engineers, deepwater drilling contractors, executives and managers who will be responsible for making decisions during a deepwater blowout.

Registration and Information Contacts: To sign up for the meeting, which is open to all interested parties, please contact Dr. Jerome Schubert, Department of Petroleum Engineering, Texas A&M University ((979) 862-1195 or Schubert@spindletop.tamu.edu); or David B. Burnett GPRI ((979) 845-2274 or burnett@gpri.org).

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