Whoa!... Nmsys is right! It is fun just to comb the website and copy-and-paste outrage-of-the-day stories!! (And there are so many to choose from!)
BP knew cement to plug well was 'unstable,' investigators say
BP and its cement contractor, Halliburton, knew weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the new well was unstable but still completed the work, staff for the presidential commission investigating the accident said in a letter Thursday.
That improper cement work "may have contributed to the blowout" on April 20 that killed 11 workers and led to the largest offshore oil spill in history, the staff stated in the first official finding of responsibility for the disaster.
Other factors have also been cited as possibly contributing to the explosion, among them a faulty blowout preventer and BP's decisions to use fewer stability rings on the well piping and seawater instead of heavier mud to plug the well until it was to be used for production.
LadyJazzer wrote: Whoa!... Nmsys is right! It is fun just to comb the website and copy-and-paste outrage-of-the-day stories!! (And there are so many to choose from!)
BP knew cement to plug well was 'unstable,' investigators say
BP and its cement contractor, Halliburton, knew weeks before the Deepwater Horizon explosion that the cement mixture they planned to use to seal the new well was unstable but still completed the work, staff for the presidential commission investigating the accident said in a letter Thursday.
That improper cement work "may have contributed to the blowout" on April 20 that killed 11 workers and led to the largest offshore oil spill in history, the staff stated in the first official finding of responsibility for the disaster.
Other factors have also been cited as possibly contributing to the explosion, among them a faulty blowout preventer and BP's decisions to use fewer stability rings on the well piping and seawater instead of heavier mud to plug the well until it was to be used for production.
A cement failure is NOT what caused the blow out. The cement work was done to put a shoe at the bottom of the well casing. It is not intended to plug a well or prevent oil from getting into the casing. This is simply another ignorant correspondence form a staff that is learning as they go and have no fundamental concept of drilling an oil well but are looking for something to make political hay. The reason the cement job was even an issue concerns oil leaking outside the casing and coming up the borehole that way. This was not the case or they would NEVER have been able to top kill the well once they established a reliable seal on the riser pipe. Nor would the operation of the blowout preventer remain an issue. What is the storry on it? WHY DID IT NOT WORK? Of all things, the blowout preventer is designed to PREVENT blowouts from happening, not cement jobs.
