[IamConservative]

The top side still has holes and hasn’t been sealed. If what they are saying is true then they have in effect stopped the oil coming up with greater pressue from the fluids they are injecting from the top.

Perhaps my expectations were wrong then. I was looking for the ejection to stop when the hydrostatic pressure of the fluid exceeded the well pressure. At any rate, let's hope they get a nice big concrete cork in that puppy today!

[crusty old prospector]

Once they have the well killed, they don’t want to take a chance that it will unload again. It’s just a little bentonite (clay) and barite, which is a weighing agent.

[deport]

At any rate, let’s hope they get a nice big concrete cork in that puppy today!

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I don’t know the procedure nor time schedule to get the cement plug in place but it does take some time. I think they use a quick set type cement but it isn’t instant.

[valkyry1]

I hope they pump concrete into the entire depth of that well.