[razorback-bert]

Well, there are some caverns of oil, Irann field, Dollarhide and Indian Hills to name a few. The biggest I have heard spoken of was 50 feet, we did drop 20 feet on one kelly in the Dollarhide.

That said, my sister did bite a moose on the cheese once.

[lentulusgracchus]

We could spend some energy and burn a few neurons and explain it to him -- capillarity, ketogenesis, primary and secondary migration, pressure gradients and geopressure, pore-throat compaction and other skin effects, the concept of formation damage + borehole washout = you ain't got a well any more, I don't care how many BOPD it's making.

IBTZ is easier.

I vote for IBTZ.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

OK y'all while we have this ignorant thread to work with I have two questions.

If the riser is removed and they can get to the top flange why would you not place another BOP on top of what they have? I can see not doing it before because removing the bent riser lets more oil escape, but why not now?

Two if you ran drill pipe into the BOP now, assuming it is open, could you run it to a good depth or would you get so much back flow every time you connected a stand that it would be imposable? If you could run it in, pumping mud at a few thousand feet would be far better than the Top Kill idea, even though you would lose a hell of a lot of it.