Relief well overview and ranging animation with Kent Wells - 27 June 2010

[Serpo]

Excellent description with animation of the relief wells being drilled and how they will connect

http://bp.concerts.com/gom/reliefwellgraphics062710.htm

[Cebu_4_2]

Interesting

Bump

[wallew]

This is EXACTLY the BP graphic I posted on THIS thread:


http://gold-silver.us/forum/general-discussion/bp-oil-disaster-worst-case-scenario-w-kindra-arnesen-bp-community-liaison/

[Cebu_4_2]

I read that thread but didn't see any animation in it. The earthquake theory is something new to me though.

[EE_]

Like the other video, I missed the part on how the mud gets into the original well? Do they cut the pipe with the new well bore?
They don't seem to show me the most important part?
Can anyone fill in the blank for me?

[Cebu_4_2]

Like the other video, I missed the part on how the mud gets into the original well? Do they cut the pipe with the new well bore?
They don't seem to show me the most important part?
Can anyone fill in the blank for me?


Yes once the new well wraps around the main it somehow cuts into the main well and they pump the mud and concrete. Thats the way I am understanding it.

[wallew]

I read that thread but didn't see any animation in it. The earthquake theory is something new to me though.

Sorry, no animation. I did post an email from a family friend who has been in the oil business for sixty plus years. I posted that AND a still of the 'progress of relief well'.

That's all. I was just attempting to show that this IS the second posting on BP's graphic department at work.

[EE_]

Like the other video, I missed the part on how the mud gets into the original well? Do they cut the pipe with the new well bore?
They don't seem to show me the most important part?
Can anyone fill in the blank for me?


Yes once the new well wraps around the main it somehow cuts into the main well and they pump the mud and concrete. Thats the way I am understanding it.

Okay, now it is somehow perfectly clear that they somehow cut into the main well. Thanks! ???

[Hatha Sunahara]

So, how do they overcome the 40,000 psi pressure of the stuff flowing out of the main well? If they have two relief wells will that reduce the pressure in each well to a manageable level? In order to plug it up, that pressure has to be overcome.

I read an account by some independent drilling consultants that they may have to drill as many as 30 relief wells to get the pressure down to a manageable level.

I just love it when I'm listening to experts who are presenting a plan that doesn't address the central issue. What we are being fed here may be a load of Bovine Fecal Material. I'll bet this strategy doesn't work.

Hatha

[Serpo]

Like the other video, I missed the part on how the mud gets into the original well? Do they cut the pipe with the new well bore?
They don't seem to show me the most important part?
Can anyone fill in the blank for me?


Yes this is what I want to know also

[wallew]

When ever you drill an oil well, they use 'mud' to keep the bit clean. They inject mud into the pipe they are drilling with under pressure. It comes out of the drill bit, again under pressure. In the process it cleans up anything that is in the drill bit itself.

IF they break a bit, it can take several hours to have to raise it, pull it off and put another bit on.

The mud that they inject INTO the pipe is actually a chemical mixture of all sorts of thing and it does indeed contain some mud as well as chemicals. Lubricants mainly, but I've just reached the edge of my chemistry knowledge.

The mud is INJECTED into every oil well drilled BY the driller. It IS part of the process.

Hope that helps.

[EE_]

When ever you drill an oil well, they use 'mud' to keep the bit clean. They inject mud into the pipe they are drilling with under pressure. It comes out of the drill bit, again under pressure. In the process it cleans up anything that is in the drill bit itself.

IF they break a bit, it can take several hours to have to raise it, pull it off and put another bit on.

The mud that they inject INTO the pipe is actually a chemical mixture of all sorts of thing and it does indeed contain some mud as well as chemicals. Lubricants mainly, but I've just reached the edge of my chemistry knowledge.

The mud is INJECTED into every oil well drilled BY the driller. It IS part of the process.

Hope that helps.

What is this supposed to help?