[Patton@Bastogne]

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Excellent !

I'm a Mechanical Engineer who's worked in the North Sea, Gulf, Texas (San Antonio) and McAllen (Texas) gas fields ...

I worked laying pipelines (Taylor Diving and Salvage)and fracture-treating oil and gas wells (Shell Oil).

Yours is one the BEST and easiest to understand explanations that I've read ...

Do you think that they're drilling TWO relief wells to increase the chance of actually intersecting the drill string (under the drill string) ?

Is directional drilling actually capable of doing that ?

How do they create-control the required curvature of the relief well's drill string, especially when it's a cantenated curve consisting of 9 5/8 inch casing ?


Patton-at-Bastogne


www.engineering-excellence.us


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[screaminsunshine]

Not enough travel in the BOP to get enough heavy mud on top of the oil and drive it back down. Waste of time from the start.

[Ronald_Magnus]

I’m somewhat familiar with directional boring, but the idea that they can hit a 1 foot target 10,000 feet below the sea floor seems fantastic..and dare I say, maybe impossible.

[DCPatriot]

It isn't me who is the engineer.

The links are shown in the posts...but I wanted to share such a remarkably intelligent explanation from somebody who obviously knows WTF is going on down there and what likely happened.

I have since added his secondary contribution to that thread here for everybody's convenience.

Cheers!

[DCPatriot]

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread576723/pg3

"...If there are 6 degrees of separation in the world there are only 2 in the oilfield. The "field" rumor is they had tools in the 7" that prevented the shear rams from working. Shear rams are steel designed to cut off anything in the blowout preventer and close.

What no one has talked about are the pipe rams. I'd bet money that they didn't change out the pipe rams to the diameter of the casing. If this is the case it doesn't matter what closing actuator you use.... electronic, hydraulic, mechanical or acoustic."