Research Article

Blowout Accident Impact Analysis Method for the Siting of Offshore Floating Nuclear Power Plant in Offshore Oil Fields

Table 1

The blowout frequencies during the different operational phases (data based on the experience from US GoM OCS, UK, and Norway in the period 1980-01-01–2005-01-01).

Operational phaseNo. of operationsNo. of incidentsNo. of operations per incidentNo. of incidents per operation

Development drilling22833574012.50E − 03
Exploration drilling13762711945.16E − 03
Completion203281513027.70E − 04
Production21114210211144.70E − 05
Well workover19920375381.86E − 03
Wire line3589418448682.20E − 05