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Title: Feds Say Well's Not Dead Yet, More Drilling Needed
Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS
URL Source: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie ... AULT&CTIME=2010-08-13-17-20-53
Published: Aug 13, 2010
Author: ASSOCIATED PRESS
Post Date: 2010-08-13 18:02:49 by Brian S
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Views: 4553
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP's broken oil well is not dead yet.

The government's point man on the crisis said Friday that the blown-out well is not securely plugged to his satisfaction and that the drilling of the relief well - long regarded as the only way to ensure that the hole at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico never leaks oil again - must go forward.

"The relief well will be finished," said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. "We will kill the well."

Work on the relief well was suspended earlier this week because of bad weather. Allen did not say when it would resume, but when the order comes, it could take four days to get the operation up and running again.

From there, it could be only a matter of days before the "bottom kill" is done and the blown-out well that wreaked havoc on the Gulf Coast economy and environment is no longer a threat.

Last week, BP plugged up the ruptured oil well from the top with mud and cement, and for a while, it appeared that the relief well that BP has been drilling 2 1/2 miles under the sea all summer long in an effort to seal up the leak from the bottom might not be necessary after all. But Allen dashed those hopes after scientists conducted pressure tests on Thursday.

Scientists had hoped that the cement pumped in from the top had plugged the gap between the well's inner pipe and its outer casing. The pressure tests showed some cement was in that gap, but officials don't know enough about what's there - or how much of it - to trust that there is a permanent seal, said Allen, who has repeatedly insisted on an "overabundance of caution" when it comes to plugging the well.

The well spilled an estimated 206 million gallons of crude into the sea before BP finally put a cap on it July 15. But that was always regarded as a temporary fix until the relief well and the bottom kill could be completed.

Bob Bea, a petroleum engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that given the results of the pressure tests, proceeding with the relief well makes sense.

"Everything we know at this time says we need to continue the work with the relief wells," he said. "We don't know the details of how they plugged the well from the top. We don't know the volume of material they put in the well bore, and without that we can't tell how close to the bottom of the well they got."

Drilling of the relief well began in early May, and the tunnel is now just 30 to 50 feet from the blown-out well. To intercept the well, the drillers must hit a target about the size of a dinner plate. Once they punch through, heavy drilling mud and cement will be injected into the bedrock.

Allen said scientists from BP and the government are working to ensure the bottom kill does not damage the cap and make the disaster worse. New equipment to ease the pressure inside the well might have to be installed, which would "significantly affect the timeline" for the final fix, Allen said, though he did not specify how much.

Officials from BP and the federal government have been touting the bottom kill as the final fix for weeks, and local officials said they were glad to hear it will go forward.

"If it's a nearly redundant safety measure, that makes sense to us," said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who attended a closed-door meeting with Allen, local leaders and other federal officials.

The possibility, floated earlier this week, that the well might already be plugged didn't sit well with local officials or environmentalists, who said they were leery of optimistic forecasts from BP and the government.

"After all this effort, why would they quit before they're done?" said Richard Charter, a senior policy adviser for Defenders of Wildlife. "If you had a trustworthy company and they said it's done, it's done. But in this case BP has not been a trustworthy company."

Along the Gulf Coast in Houma, La., construction worker Doug Hunt wearily wondered if the crisis would ever end upon hearing that the permanent fix was at least several more days off.

"All we've heard is oil, oil, oil. I guess they'll do the job sooner or later, but it will take a long time for the people here to recover from this," Hunt said.

The crisis began on April 20, after an explosion on the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that killed 11 workers. Subscribe to *Spill-Baby-Spill*

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Bob Bea, a petroleum engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said that given the results of the pressure tests, proceeding with the relief well makes sense.

"Everything we know at this time says we need to continue the work with the relief wells," he said. "We don't know the details of how they plugged the well from the top. We don't know the volume of material they put in the well bore, and without that we can't tell how close to the bottom of the well they got."

This is not some Joe Blow:

Bea's supposedly the Inner Circle. Still maybe.

"We don't know" what british petroleum and the Incident Command are doing.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   10:18:09 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Allen said scientists from BP and the government are working to ensure the bottom kill does not damage the cap and make the disaster worse. New equipment to ease the pressure inside the well might have to be installed, which would "significantly affect the timeline" for the final fix, Allen said, though he did not specify how much.

EXCUSE ME!? So tell me again why the pumping of mud/cement 'STATIC KILL' was tried?

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   10:19:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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"Shit Creek?,"Allen replied when queried. "Not sure if we have any response teams operating there. But if we're not there now, you can rest assured we soon will be." [/satire]

Instead of this dangerous charade, the Unified Command could be producing oil to ships right now and only closing down the system when the relief well is just poised to intersect. That would have avoided an unnecessary weeks-long pressure rise and the inevitable further pressure-driven fracturing of vulnerable strata down hole. Those vulnerabilities could now complicate the bottom kill attempt and potentially render it impossible. Too high a price to pay for BP's PR benefit. Thad Allen has been turned into BP's Go-fer. We are now back where we were weeks ago -only worse. Say hello to the Zombie well.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   11:08:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: mcgowanjm (#4)

Thad Allen has been turned into BP's Go-fer.

I heard he'll have a 2 p.m. press conference today.

I guess he has them every day but I'm more interested (as is the media) in the JetBlue flight attendant story;^)

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-14   11:14:59 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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I guess he has them every day

That's the implication, but no he doesn't.

And bp doesn't hold ANY McBriefings anymore.

While The Oil Drum is getting desperate for this to go away as 'unwanted celebrities' are infiltrating the threads and geting hammered by the regulars that 'It's aLl Over.'

First they ignore.

Then they laugh.

Then they fight.

Then they lose.

Since JFK was assassinated.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   11:22:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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The Oil Drum | BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Static Kill to Begin ... Comments can no longer be added to this story. [-] gmf on August 2, 2010 - 2:59pm .... mummsie -- For a variety of reasons (mostly those "unknowns" again) I view that bottom kill as less likely to work than the top kill. And even if the bottom kill appears to work I would worry about the long term ability of the ... www.theoildrum.com/node/6805

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   11:23:16 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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TV: Little kids swimming in “milky brown” water that used to be “emerald green”; “Lord, they don’t know it’s not suppossed to be brown” (VIDEO) August 14th, 2010 at 10:30 AM

More Oil Washes Up In Gulf Shores, WKRG Channel 5 CBS (Mobile), August 11, 2010:

Not one person assigned to clean-up the beach could be found for . . . [4; Read More: TV: Little kids swimming in “milky brown” water that used to be “emerald green”; “Lord, they don’t know it’s not suppossed to be brown” (VIDEO)

Nothing has been fixed. Millions will die.

With Corexit, oil has been given strait entry into the skin. Hemmorhaging organs.

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   11:25:37 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Isn't Obama visiting down there again? Will he let his kids into the water?

My buddy won't let his family get into the water.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2010-08-14   11:37:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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Isn't Obama visiting down there again? Will he let his kids into the water?

Looking forward to the video of it. 8D But Daddy, do we HAVE to go swimming in the Gulf?

Port St Joe's just to the East and just days ago, they had oil, then night(reports of planes flying low over the Bay, then the next day Oil's gone with a fish kill washing into shore.

Black prisoners brought in(bet those prisoner infirmaries are doing a bang up bizness ;}. Clean up.

Then ....wait for it...IT's Festival Time at Port St Joe!!! 8D

mcgowanjm  posted on  2010-08-14   11:42:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#11. To: All (#10)

There's rage on the Gulf Coast.

I and others can't post fast enough. The MSM can't be bothered.

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The Press-Register(Mobile) reports, “BP has rejected claims from Orange Beach that city contractors are regularly encountering and collecting oil from inshore waters, including Cotton Bayou, Terry Cove and Bayou St. John, city officials said.”

“BP keeps telling us there is no oil, to skim or otherwise, and we keep telling them there is… We’re skimming it,” the Orange Beach Coastal Resource Manager said.

A BP spokesman told the Press-Register that company officials “don’t believe what the mayor’s crew is finding is oil.”

Unfuckingbelievable.

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Washington (CNN) -- President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have departed the White House for Andrews Air Force Base, where they will leave for the Gulf Coast this weekend to support businesses that have been devastated by the oil disaster.

One of their daughters, Sasha, is joining them for the trip as the family spends time in Panama City Beach, Florida. Her sister, Malia, is still at camp.

...I'm sure they won't go in the water, unless the crowds chant for them to;^)

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