Posted on 05/27/2010 2:03:28 PM PDT by moose2004
HOUSTON — BP had to halt its ambitious effort to plug its stricken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon when engineers saw that too much of the drilling fluid they were injecting into the well was escaping along with the leaking crude oil.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
WEll the LA Times is reporting that the spill is plugged. Well that was before the speech. Speech is over....
it went awry almost to the very second that The One claimed that he was “in charge”.
So why do we have the rest of the media out there claiming “It worked!?” Oh, I guess they were just feeling overly exhuberant from the Street Punk’s presser.
Cut to the control room celebration scene with the one skeptical tech starting at his computer monitor with a frown on his face and shaking his head ever so slightly. Then he looks up and says, "Jim, I think you better take a look at this.".
the truth is gushing out
The Live Feed still shows oil leaking like crazy...
Because The One spoke.
So shall it be written, so shall it be done.
BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! I said that earlier.
0bama's latest inane, Narcissistic rambling.
What is: "Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?"
If they have fractured the bed formation.....which was a worry......it’s the relief wells or nothing. Just damn.
This rather incomplete article bodes potential serious ill for the procedure. An earlier article, posted here on FR, the link for which I do not have, stated that successful mud injection could be easier said than done because the mud might be leaking out of the bore through cracks in brittle rock formations, in which case the mud would be essentially consumed trying to fill a nearly infinite void. One of the problems with this well, also mentioned in an earlier article, is that BP sped up drilling to reduce costs and started cracking brittle formations. If that speed drilling and accompanying cracking continued until the day of the blowout, then a lot of the mud just might be wasted, meaning the plugging will take a lot longer than hoped for.
I wondered why some of the matter leaking from the well was very light colored and some was much darker. I know that sounds elementary because I am no engineer, but it just didn’t look right.
LOL!
This could be bad.
I don’t know why so many on FR are so desperate to believe any so called “good news” yet they dismiss what other experts world wide are saying. It’s weird. I’m tired of providing links and evidence. I’ll just wait until they can no longer deny it and say I told you so. If I’m wrong, they WOO HOO. I live in FL, I want it stopped immediately but I’m not going to to pretend it’s all okay when it’s not.
“This rather incomplete article bodes potential serious ill for the procedure.”
Damn! I feel so sorry for the citizens of the Gulf States. Do you know if any credible organization has started a relief fund yet?
hahah. Good point. Everything this guy touches turns to pure crap.
What are experts world-wide saying?
And everyone: you can stop taking about BP pumping cement into the hole to plug the well. I know it’s difficult for most to envision what’s going on down there. But this isn’t a simplification of the situation: you have a pipe sticking straight up the air and it’s flowing 10 gallons per minute out the top. You stick a tube down the pipe and start pumping cement. Question: how long for the cement to harden? Answer: never. The cement is going to mix with the water and flow out the end of the pipe. Honest...I didn’t dumb down this example. That’s exactly what would happen if the pumped cmt down the blow out if it were still flowing. No one has ever set a cement plug into a flowing well in the history of the oil business. But you can shove a packer down a producing csg string and stop or at least slow a flow considerably. But can’t shove a packer down this hole: can’t get it through the BOP. And if you could there’s drill pipe in the way.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6516
I’ve been following the discussion over here:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6516#more
Some real problems it sounds like...
Joe, your post literally brings tears man, everyone, everywhere wants this to work. We all know what happens if this beast goes uncontrolled for the next 3-6 months.
Obamie claiming credit jinxed the whole thing.
You mean it could take up to 6 months to stop the oil and gas? I thought the relief wells would be done by the first of August.
LOL! Serves him right.
I have a question, is that all/mostly oil that we see coming out of the pipe on the live feed?
The tube is spraying the dispersant again(right corner of feed) so the oil is still leaking and it appears to be coming out at an increased rate.
And every engineer/oilfield hand knows you can't pump cement on an active well. Unfortunately, every socialite from new york to la are now all oil field engineers......if we are to believe the ny times.
Is that oil or is it mud?
Probably 75-80% of the watchers think you can just plug it with cement before it’s killed.
I have a question, is that all/mostly oil that we see coming out of the pipe on the live feed?
Well since you’re the expert here on FR, :) what do you think? Did the top kill fail? Is there another leak elsewhere and how did they underestimate the amount of oil leaking for one solid month? Or did they just choose not to admit it? Did you work on rigs in the ocean that were under a mile of water?
so the hole is not plugged right?
is the media now saying it is not if true?
sorry not been up to date on this as I have been busy on another tonka toy and his troll pal.
The ocean is 100’ out my back door. Hurricane season is approaching. I was just sitting out there looking at the turquoise water and watching the Snapper, tropicals and lobster, wondering what is going to happen. I desperately want it fixed but I’m not going to pretend it’s ok if it’s not. I just want the truth so if they can’t stop it until August, let us know so we can begin NOW to attempt to prevent it from reaching the shores and to protect the coral reefs.
another question, hope you don’t mind pal
is this has failed then how long could we be looking at as it will destroy our state and I guarantee that bozo will be crapping it seeing as we are a massive state and a swing state , infact he can’t win without our state and he knows
you’re further south than me so I assume you’ll see the damage before me too.
Probably 99% of FReepers have never been near a drilling rig.
cheers pal
I think it is fair speculation that this attempt has not been successful, yet. Based on everything I’ve read today and observed, a very small amount of the mud being pumped, has actually been forced down the well. There is nothing conclusive that I’ve seen or read, to suggest that the attempt has been successful. It remains an open question.
I just finished watching most of the BP news conference at 5:30 and was struck by the fact that the rep kept talking about including “bridging material” in the mud mixture when pumping is resumed later tonight. This leads me to believe (I have no way of knowing this for sure) that they have determined that they are in fact loosing mud to the formation as well as out through the leaking BOP. If that is true then the location and size of that down hole communication will determine whether or not this procedure will, in the end, succeed or fail.
Being retired and as far away as I am from the operation and having no better information than anyone else here, I am only guessing at this point and need to make that plain.
Thank you for that info.
Well since I'm the expert my fee is 1500 USD a day and expenses.
I don't think it failed, they knew it would take days to find out. They are pumping mud into a T with one end open. They have to pump so much that enough mud goes down the well bore to kill the well while they are loosing so much out the open end.
I have no idea how much they are leaking every day. Why should they care? Will it help solve the problem? That is as dumb a question as the MSM asking how many were killed in an earthquake hours after it happens while efforts to dig people out is ongoing. Knowing the answer will not help solve the problem and only those not involved in solving the leak care.
No I never worked in a mile of water, have you? I know thousands of great drilling men who have not.
So now it will be spun this way: BP got mad at Obama claiming victory, at which point they sabotaged the effort
I’ve been on one as a tour guest. Still have only a very rudimentary idea how it works. The drill in question was one of the most advanced on the planet so this maybe beyond our current level of solving.
I saved my applause when the media was immediately reporting it to be a success and I will save my tears as the media starts screaming FAILURE!
The “MFM” knows this is THE TOP story and they are all very eager to be the FIRST with the latest scoop.
Before they even started, BP said it would take awhile and there would be stuff spewing for awhile, colors changing, etc.
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