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To: profgoose

Pressure readings after 41 hours were 6,745 pounds per square inch and rising slowly, Wells said, below the 7,500 psi that would have reassured scientists the well was not leaking. ...


18 posted on 07/17/2010 2:04:31 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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That pressure reading can mean three things apparently. Reservoir depletion, Cross Talk with Another Reservoir, or Leakage into the porous rock strata. Going into the test that value was inconclusive and meant that Well Integrity was not assured. They are now going to just assume the well has been depleted and that explains the lower pressure. They have absolutely no way to prove that with any degree of certainty. So basically, we have learned nothing from this test and they continue to roll the bones (dice).


27 posted on 07/17/2010 2:50:50 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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