Mark Hafle, the BP drilling engineer who wrote plans for well casings and cement seals on the Deepwater Horizon's well, testified that "the well had lost thousands of barrels of mud at the bottom." The well had balooned and blown out.

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Release the e-logs and mudlogs Mineral Management Service and the Department of Oil and Gas. President Obama, order it done. By Chris Landau (geologist)

Or shut all the oil and gas offshore well drilling down forever.

" Oh, E-Logs, tell us the balloon story.

You were there right before the BP blowout happened.

All others are now silent as the graves of the eleven.

We will not forget them.

You will help us remember."

These logs, they speak. They tell us what happened and is happening every foot of the way down to the bottom of the well. They are our eyes, our ears and our brains. They are the forensic truth. They do not lie. They have no hidden agenda.

They are the black box, now that the jet airliner has crashed.

Who will care for our world?

Our oil industry does not care for our world. Our government is negotiating for money, position and power. They all watch while Rome burns. They do not care either.

And is this not Rome in the final days of its dying empire? Grown fat and slothful and self centered on the plunder of its colonies.

More at any cost!

And what of our soldiers, sent out to die in meaningless wars to make those that created those wars ever richer.

Where are our eagles? Where are the standard bearers? Let us rally to the standard bearers. If they fall, we all fall. If you want to go to war, choose your battles wisely. Fight for the good of all.

Leave our colonial past behind. Let us have partners in power.

Who will lead us now? There is no Caesar.

Look to our children. They still care.

We look to the light, but it is still hidden in clouds of death. Death is in our waters. Death flies in on a breeze. It clings, it envelops. Benzene, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide await us now. We have two enemies now.

One in the water and one in the air. Be vigilant. Your life and that of your children rests in your hands.

Our world calls every person to action. Each new generation is given the torch while they have the Olympic stamina to bear it.

We deserve this world. We deserve the good and the bad. We have plundered its beauty, created empires of grey, and killed our plants, animals and fellow human beings in the name of progress.

We have divided and conquered and when we look into the mirror of our conscience, do we like what we see? Is this our greater self?

We can do better.

Today is a new year.

Embrace hope in this summer of our lives

It is the summer of our lives.

We can no longer abuse and tear down. We can no longer justify the emptiness.

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.

Drill the last 8 wells now to save the Gulf. Drill them straight down. Space them 1500 foot apart. Surround this well with holes to remove the oil and gas pressure. Draw the oil down by flow and pumps until it no longer comes through the sea floor. Do not compromise the geology. Watch the mud weight. Do not raise the density of the drilling mud too high. An intact geology is all that stands between the well and another larger disaster. Use multiple casings within one another.

Lastly consult the seismic scans. They will help to confirm any large scale fault zones and tell us at what depth these are. These potential fault zones are further balloon points. They are danger points. Treat them with care.

Solution Outline

This is the solution. There is no other.

Act to save our world.

Do it now.

Chris Landau (geologist)

06-23-2010.

P.S

Hearings: BP cementing engineer rejects suggestion his actions led to disaster. Part of These hearings can be found on the following article from David Hammer of the Times-Picayune. I have highlighted the relevant text on ballooning, drill mud loss and bad cement/ casing design, the three things, I feel led to this failure. The extra 2 casing pipes within pipes probably did not have enough cement between them, which allowed a though flow of oil and gas from the blown out ballooned formation below.

I still wish to see the mudlogs, e-logs and seismic scans.

Here is the link to Mark Hafle's speech given to the joint hearings by the U.S. Coast Guard and Minerals Management Service heldin Kenner.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/hearings_bp_cementing_engineer.html

"'Mark Hafle, the BP drilling engineer who wrote plans for well casings and cement seals on the Deepwater Horizon's well, testified that the well had lost thousands of barrels of mud at the bottom. But he said models run onshore showed alterations to the cement program would resolve the issues, and when asked if a cement failure allowed the well to "flow" gas and oil, he wouldn't capitulate.

Hafle said he made several changes to casing designs in the last few days before the well blew, including the addition of the two casing liners that weren't part of the original well design because of problems where the earthen sides of the well were "ballooning." He also worked with Halliburton engineers to design a plan for sealing the well casings with cement.

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

Authors Bio:

I was born in South Africa in 1958. I came to the USA with my wife and three daughters in 2003. We became US citizens in 2009 and 2010. My wife Susan is a Special Education English Teacher. She has a bachelor's degree in Micro anatomy and biochemistry. I have two daughters at university and one in the tech world. I am lucky to be surrounded by such talented women.

I am a vegetarian and enjoy growing trees, vegetables and plants from seed.

My interests lie in astronomy, meteorology, geology and biology.
In astronomy, I am interested in dimensions, the speed of electromagnetic radiation in different density conditions, redshift, magnetism associated with rings of planets and stars, black holes and contracting galaxies and the rotation of the universe.

In September 2010 I presented three new concepts on our Earth, our Sun and the planets and stars that surround us. The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG) published my ideas on October 4, 2010 on Planetary-Spin heat relationships, Jupiter-Saturn-Solar Tidal-Sunspot coupling and Planetary-Solar alternating magnetic fields. The paper can be found at the AIPG website at:

http://www.aipg.org/Events/2010 Annual Meeting/final papers.htm

In meteorology, my interests lie in long-range hourly weather forecasts through tidal and magnetic forces for both convectional and cyclonic rainfall.

In geology, my interests are in the inorganic origin of oil, gas and coal, under reducing conditions, through hydrogen sulfide and water acting on coal, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide and calcareous formations. My chemical and thermodynamic equations to prove how this occurred have been published.
As a geologist, I delivered two peer reviewed presentations to prove the theory, one to the Association of Engineering and Environmental Geologists in 2008 (AEG).

http://www.aegweb.org/files/public/abstracts.pdf, page 17.

The other was to The American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG)

AIPG 2009 Geology and Resources Conference
Grand Junction, CO
October 3-7, 2009
Proceedings Page 93

http://aipg.org/Events/pastmeeting.htm

These publications include methods of carbon capture that help generate new energy and make carbon dioxide a reusable resource. Understanding fracking by water is when hydrogen is added to carbon through the coal gas, Fischer Tropsch and Wurtz syntheses. Fracking is chemical Cracking and Fractional distillation in situ. It is making oil and gas by adding hydrogen to carbon. It is not hydraulic fracturing of rock.

My other interests are in the driving forces for continental drift, "magnetic rock vortices".

I enjoy growing my own fruit trees and vines and hope to be self-sufficient one day.
I hope that the world will one day all be vegetarians. I believe we can only truly respect ourselves and the other animals if we do not see them as a food source. No human being likes the thought of being eaten by animals. Animals should not be raised as a protein source.

I would like to see the oil, gas and coal being recycled daily, so no carbon dioxide or other pollutants are released into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide can be reduced back to methane under reducing conditions.
Solar power should be stepped up in a huge way to create clean renewable energy for the world. Desalination of seawater by solar power is the long-term solution to our water needs and our food production. Education to limit global population growth is vital to have sustainable resources for the world and its animals.
I look forward to mutually beneficial relationships that exploit neither party.

Chris Landau