Office/Division Program
TAP
Project Number
25
Category
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Activity
Naval Surface Weapons Center, White Oak, Maryland
Research Principal Investigator
Mr. Donald Phillips
Research Contracting Agency
Description
On request for technology support, the Research and Development Program is assisting the U.S. Geological Survey Area Office, Anchorage, to quantify the environmental effects from blowing-off wellheads using shaped charges.
Latest progress update
Complete. Rodney Smith, Anchorage, provided technical information which was used by Naval Surface Weapons Center to perform theoretical and experimental analysis of the overpressures created by detonating shaped charges 15 feet below the mud line on given wellheads. Half scale experiments were conducted in the lower Potomac river. Project is complete and information was transferred to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for a study on the effects of explosives on fish. See Project No. 44.