This must stop today.
Lead by example.
Put aside those petty dividing politics, reach out and heal the world.
It is within our power to stop the disaster in the gulf.
I say, no more drilling for oil in the sea. This was the final blunder. It is now time to look to the dawn.
Sunlight our world.
What needs to be done to bring this carcinogenic catastrophe to a close?
BP engineer Mark Hafle describes in his testimony on May 28, 2010 of the ballooning of the well.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/hearings_bp_cementing_engineer.html
What does this mean? The size of the well was enlarged by drilling mud attrition and weak formations which led to the loss of drilling mud while drilling. He describes adding more drilling mud as the drilling mud escaped into the formation. That is already your first sign of a blown out formation, which means you cannot seal this well. The e-logs and mudlogs will show the ballooning of the well bore at many points. It will show at what depth this took place. Each layer of oil and gas that is very porous is also a potential balloon point. This ballooning is confirmation that they should have plugged and abandoned this well a long time ago, when they still had the chance. Now they have none until the pressure falls off. It is very important to realize that BP'S upcoming bottom kill, will further blow out the formation as heavier mud is pumped in leading to more ballooning of the well, less integrity of the casing and cement. We need to recognize this as a failed well with deeply shattered and extra porous geology. The large permeable pore spaces and accompanying fractures will link all three wells to create an even larger blowout.
FINAL WARNING!
STOP DRILLING THE DIRECTIONAL WELLS INTO A BLOWN OUT FORMATION WITH LARGE BALOON HORIZONS. THIS WILL LEAD TO THREE BLOWOUT WELLS WITH A MASSIVE LINKED BLOWN OUT FORMATION.
How many balloon horizons were there? The e-logs will tell us? How many times did they" top this well up" with drilling mud? Was this synthetic, oil or water based mud? Did they try to save the synthetic mud at the end of the drilling, so that they could use it on the next well? Did this rapid depressurization of the well with sea water, along with poor and limited cement work by Halliburton lead to this blowout? Blown out formations, caused by poor mud weight control, while drilling certainly helped create this disaster. So many mistakes were made by all parties on this well, they must all be held accountable.
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