John McCarroll from Minerals Management Service, a member of a six-person investigative panel holding hearings in Kenner, couldn't hold back his opinion that cement failures allowed the well to flow as he questioned Hafle.
"Don't you think for that size casing, you set up your Halliburton cementer for failure, especially when you had a loss return zone (where drilling mud was seeping into the earth) below the hole?" McCarroll pointedly asked."'
Here is Mark Hafle's testimony on C-span.
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/293776-1
One final point. Schlumberger lost their cement strength testing tool down this hole. Was it recovered? Did this also aid in the blowout? When was this lost? During the drilling process or at the end?
Chris Landau
06-23-2010
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