BSEE releases panel investigation's report on subsea jumper's leak

Oil & Gas Journal: A ductile tensile overload fracture of a subsea jumper’s load limiting joint led to an estimated 1,926 bbl of crude oil leaking from a Shell Offshore Inc. offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico on May 11, 2016, a US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement panel’s investigation concluded.

Loss of containment in the glider jumper on Subsea Well No. 4 on Green Canyon Block 245 was caused by the bending loads imposed by the partial burial of the Glider No. 4 jumper and subsequent subsiding of the subsea sled No. 2, BSEE said as it released the findings on Mar. 9.

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