[TWfromTEXAS]

Well my dear old grand dad was a Navy officer, Rice grad, helped the CIA pick up that Russian sub in the 70's, Cameron BOP salesman and VP of Global Marine. My dad served in the Army and can blow you up 10 ways with things found around the house, spent some years on rigs and has sold drilling equipment for 40 years.

I just punch computer keys but I assure you there is no way to cause a blowout, underwater, when the pipe is full of mud and or cement. This is getting foolish and no one here associated with the industry thinks it can be done.

[ExSoldier]

This is getting foolish and no one here associated with the industry thinks it can be done.

Of course I defer to your experience, but I'd suggest you read what Travis McGee has to say below. I defer to him waaaay above what anybody in any industry has to say about any special warfare military operation. Navy SEALs specialize in doing what everybody thinks is impossible. I also believe HIM when he suggests it's a legit accident. So I rest.

[lentulusgracchus]

....there is no way to cause a blowout, underwater, when the pipe is full of mud and or cement.

Actually, there is, and that's what happened to Union Cal in the Santa Barbara Channel blowout that soiled all those beaches -- the gas wormed its way up through channels of bad (prob. mud-contaminated) cement behind the casing, outside the casing. Came all the way to surface because of a bad primary cement job. That's one of the two contenders for what happened in Mississippi Canyon.

The other is gas-cut oil-base mud inside the casing -- and a bad cement job around the shoe, that allowed gas to get into the wellbore in the first place.