We have reached a milestone of 3,000 organic followers on LinkedIn today!  Our page is a real opportunity to showcase our activities and inform on...

A newly published paper authored by our Managing Director, Bryan Atchison, is now available on ScienceDirect website. In his paper, Bryan summarises...

Busy week in Galveston. Our Managing Director, Bryan Atchison was delighted to participate in a valuable session yesterday at the IADC/SPE...

Safe Influx Automated Well Control has been featured in the January issue of World Oil magazine in an article about automated systems in well...

Our Technical Manager Mark Gillard has recently presented at the first technical webinar of the 2021-2022 session hosted by SPE Aberdeen. Mark...

At Safe Influx, we continue to invest in resources that expand knowledge and address key issues in our industry.  We have recently concluded an...

To understand the various influences and reasons behind well control incidents and to understand whether automated well control systems could have...

Safe Influx welcome two new members, Eric Wesselingh and Mark Gillard. Eric joined the company as Engineering Manager few weeks ago...

Safe Influx has appointed John MacGillivray as a Non-executive Director of the company. John brings extensive corporate expertise to Safe Influx. He...

Collaboration between Weatherford and Safe Influx brings to market the integration of cutting-edge technologies   Aberdeen, 08 April 2021 -...

Three years ago, a fatal blowout and rig fire at the Pryor Trust gas well in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, resulted in the death of five workers. The...

We are thrilled that we have reached 2,000 followers on LinkedIn! Thank you for following us and for engaging with our content. We would also like...

We are pleased that our Development Director Richard Rose will be presenting at the upcoming DEA(e) meeting, titled “Creating Value from Drilling...

ABERDEEN, 6 January 2021- Safe Influx Ltd, a provider of Automated Well Control solutions, announced today it has been granted a patent by the...

Following a recent article on Safe Influx’s analysis of historical blowouts in onshore Texas, this article presents a similar analysis of blowouts in US Gulf of Mexico in the years 1960 to 2014. This time the information has been obtained from the Bureau of Safety and...

Safe Influx Ltd maintains a global detailed database of all aspects of well control. This includes blowout frequencies, kick frequencies, extent and frequency of rig damage, extent and frequency of environment spills, clean-up costs, personnel safety statistics etc....

Collaboration to Create First-Ever Integration of Managed Pressure Drilling, Automated Well Control Technology  HOUSTON, September 23, 2020 – Weatherford International plc (OTC Pink: WFTLF) announced it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Safe Influx,...

Last week, we released a comparative human factors analysis carried out by Marex Marine and Risk Consultancy for the use of the Safe Influx Automated Well Control System against traditional well control methods employed in the oil and gas industry.   This analysis...

Recently, Marex Marine and Risk Consultancy carried out a comparative human factors study for the use of the Safe Influx Automated Well Control System against traditional well control methods employed in the oil and gas industry, revealing astonishing results.   This...

The LOAT (Level of Automation Taxonomy) is a useful tool for assessing Drilling Systems Automation (DSA). The process is derived from the Aviation industry and adapted for the drilling industry with permission from DSA Roadmap.  The LOAT chart below shows, in the...

In our collective experience, of nearly 100 years of working across eight Operators’ organisations, no well’s AFE has ever carried provision for blowouts nor for serious well control incidents. However, for the drilling of every well, series of wells or development,...

Safe Influx has now developed a model to assist Operators and other clients in assessing their forward-looking risked costs associated with well control. This can be applied to a single well, a series of wells, or indeed a field development. Safe Influx has developed...

The upstream petroleum industry stands alone in its resistance to change.  All other high-risk industries such as aviation, rail signalling, and nuclear industries have adopted automation to improve Process Safety and dramatically reduce the probability of a Major...

Following a series of Technology Qualification activities, Safe Influx Automated Well Control technology has received a Technology Qualification...