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What caused the Deepwater Horizon disaster? ( An Analysis )
The Oil Drum ^
| May 21, 2010 - 10:28am
| aeberman
Posted on 05/21/2010 10:34:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
They were losing mud circulation in the production zone. They knew the formation could not support the weight of the drilling mud.
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posted on
05/21/2010 1:00:45 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, you know chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: trek
I UNDERSTAND what likely happened. What I am TRYING to make others understand is that IF you fired a torpedo into a riser, full of mud, it would NOT blow up. IF I were going to blow one up I would pick one full of gas and crude. There is NO WAY anyone could have known that at just that moment there would/might be gas present.
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posted on
05/21/2010 1:07:52 PM PDT
by
HoustonCurmudgeon
("I'll try to be NICER, if you will try to be SMARTER!" ~ MNJohnnie, FReeper)
To: wbill
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
yup. poor planning. poor execution.
Incompetence + Incompetence = Incompetence.
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posted on
05/21/2010 1:16:10 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks. Bumping for later reading.
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posted on
05/21/2010 1:35:38 PM PDT
by
Crolis
("Nemo me impune lacessit!" - "No one provokes me with impunity!")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Nitrogen is heavy and won't support combustion.
If you can afford it ( and they can) , it can be compressed almost to liquid state down the hole quickly to balance pressure drop.
Just one of the many automated non-stupid procedures that should have already been at the ready.
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posted on
05/21/2010 1:35:53 PM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
05/21/2010 6:26:09 PM PDT
by
SouthTexas
(Congress is out of order!)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Americans are ill informed about lots of things.Only exceeded by the politicians they elect to fix said things.
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posted on
05/21/2010 6:35:34 PM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
I UNDERSTAND what likely happened. What I am TRYING to make others understand is that IF you fired a torpedo into a riser, full of mud, it would NOT blow up. IF I were going to blow one up I would pick one full of gas and crude. There is NO WAY anyone could have known that at just that moment there would/might be gas present.Not to mention that even if one were foolish enough to want to cut the riser thinking that something catastrophic might result attempting to hit the thing with a torpedo would be akin to spearing a strand of spaghetti with a toothpick! Completely foolish! It would be SO much easier to just attach a limpet type mine to the thing a go on about your business so that you could be far far away when the thing went off and severed the riser.
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posted on
05/21/2010 7:07:44 PM PDT
by
Bigun
("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
To: Erik Latranyi
Wait a sec...
This is a trick question, right??? ;-)
As my wife who teaches 4th grade has to tell her kids...
“Use your strategies!!!”
(I have been known to be the world’s largest producer of natural gas...But that’s a different issue)
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posted on
05/22/2010 3:01:54 AM PDT
by
stevie_d_64
(I'm jus sayin')
To: HoustonCurmudgeon
Thanks for thinking, but an international eco-terror conspiracy planned at the highest level of power and money makes for exciting reading.
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posted on
05/22/2010 5:18:41 AM PDT
by
1010RD
(First Do No Harm)
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