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Dropped Gland Packer
Date of Incident: 6 May 2024
Description:
During the running of a PTS wireline job, a gland packer has dropped from height due to binding in the recovery tube from ice build-up. Learnings; do not use the top drive to lift wireline tool, secondary retention added to gland packer, SIMOPS Matrix compiled.
Original Shared Learning
