Update on API RP67:Recommended Practice for

Oilfield Explosive Safety

Update on API RP67:Recommended Practice for

Oilfield Explosive Safety

OWEN OIL TOOLS

Oilfield Explosive SafetyOilfield Explosive Safety

� Why?

� First Edition

◦ Adopted 1994◦ Established Minimum Guidelines

� Procedures� Procedures� Equipment � Training

� Second Edition

◦ Adopted 2007◦ Additions

� Sections for Terms, Definitions, Symbols, and Abbreviations� Allowances for Technical Innovation� Statement for Retrieval of HMX Explosive

� Committee Co-chairs: Dan Pratt and James Barker

� Steering Committee

◦ 12 Members◦ Provide Oversight◦ Personnel Training◦ Personnel Training

� Certification� Audits

� 10 Sub-Groups

◦ Technology Updates◦ Equipment Requirements◦ Further Definition of Procedures

• RF Safe Definitions

• InterruptersDetonators & Delays

• Radial Cutting Torches

Pipe Recovery

• Detonator Testers

• Addressable Switches

• Pressure Control

• Firing PanelsSurface Equipment

• Propellants

• Reactive Charges

Special Categories

of Explosives

• Thermo-barrics

• Safety

• How to Handle InterruptsBallistic Stop Fires

• Expand Conveyance Methods

• Safety EquipmentWell Tractors

• Guidelines Instead of Statement for HMX• Guidelines Instead of Statement for HMXTemperature Management

• HazardsFiring Heads on Bottom Of

Guns

• Equipment

• Running ProceduresCoil Tubing

• Heightened Awareness

• Review Institute of Makers of Explosives

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