HAWK Safety Tool for Blowout Preventers

In the Media

  • Capping Oil Blowouts Withing 24 Hours Too Expensive, Says Ottawa
  • 5 Years After: Deepwater Horizon's Lessons Go Unlearned
  • 5 Years After BP Spill, Little Has Changed to Protect Gulf of Mexico

    • Hampering Active Wellbore Kit (HAWK)

    OBJECTIVE: Stem the uncontrolled flow of hydrocarbons between the incident and arrival implementation of existing well control strategies (e.g. Top kill).

    The HAWK Technology is the fast-acting right bowtie solution that can reduce the impact of a BOP failure by providing the driller/operator a method to rapidly bring the well under control (in minutes) while protecting existing equipment, and infrastructure; while maintaining all access/functionality for future top kill or capping stack options.

    Bowtie from Prevention to Remediation

    Functional Requirements

  • Rapid Deployment
  • Reduce flow by +90%
  • Allow for other methods

    • Financial Impact

  • Flow rate ~50,000 barrel/day
  • Approx. $12,000/barrel spilled
  • BP total cost: $55B