Schlumberger spokesman mum on disaster

Oklahoma Watchdog ^ | July 19, 2010 | Andrew W. Griffin

[SoonerStorm09]

OKLAHOMA CITY – Details about the final days and hours aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon oil rig could very well be in the Tulsa, Okla. office of Schlumberger Oilfield Services in the form of mud logs, computer data and other vital drilling-related information, according to an oil-industry insider who spoke to Oklahoma Watchdog this week but did not want to reveal his identity.

And as for the folks at Schlumberger, they aren’t talking, at least when it comes to the gritty details.

Stephen Harris, the Schlumberger spokesman who told Oklahoma Watchdog last week that investigative reporter Wayne Madsen “made up” a story about the oilfield service company’s involvement with the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has not answered follow-up questions regarding the Houston-based company’s connection to the catastrophe.

Madsen, based in Washington, D.C., reported July 9 at both Wayne Madsen Report and Online Journal that “smoking gun” documents connected to Schlumberger’s work on the doomed rig may have been squirreled away at either their Tulsa or Houston office and would likely explain in detail what really happened out there in the Gulf.

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[grandpa jones]

mud logs and wire logs are entirely different procedures. Mud logs are produced daily by examining the solids that exit the shaker (mud filter). The geological downhole composition is examined for content, and various tests are run to determine if producable formations have been encountered. Drilling speed, and background gasses are monitored, and graphically logged to have an on-going record of the hole.

In cases that I have been involved with, the daily log is transmitted to the investors. Since the well had reached total depth, I would believe that all of the investors had a complete copy of the mud log for the well.