It appears the mud is getting blown back out as fast as it's getting injected. If this continues it will not be possible to get the required column to overcome the flow moving upward. They are running out of (relatively) sale methods of getting a hand on the problem. I'm afraid it's going to boil down to cutting of whatever is protruding from the top of the BOP. Either to add to/replace the non functioning stack or to re-enter the well. I don't know enough about coil tubing to know if that is a practical solution. What I am sure of is that the odds will be better if the weight mud is injected at a greater depth. The deeper the injection point, the greater the height of the mud column the greater the head of said column. I hope there is a tool hand on this thread, Any Baker hands out there? We could sure use your brain.
Quoting: United Mud 980404Hard to tell wtf is going on...according to a bunch of articles?...Allen said they fired "debris into the bop" already...so they did a junk shot...or not...who the fuck knows...
The original source is LA times...
Reporting from Houma, La. —Engineers have at least temporarily stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government's top oil-spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
The "top kill" effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block oil and gas spewing from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, he said, but persisting. The top kill effort is not complete, officials caution.
Once engineers had reduced the well pressure to zero, they were to begin pumping cement into the hole to entomb the well.
To help in that effort, he said, engineers also were pumping some debris into the blowout preventer at the top of the well.As of early Thursday morning, neither government nor BP officials had declared the effort a success yet, pending the completion of the cementing and sealing of the well.
Allen said one ship that was pumping fluid into the well had run out of the fluid, or "mud," and that a second ship was on the way. He said he was encouraged by the progress."We'll get this under control," he said.
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The real blasting leaks from the riser kink looked more like str8 mud to me...maybe when they were really pushing hard at 65bpm...it's less now...but they have a tap in to vary that pressure with the pump system now....so who knows where the fuck they at...
I ain't too happy seeing as much gushing out as we seem to be though...pump forever is NOT going to work like you said....
