re: Deepwater Horizon left a 1200 square mile "bathtub ring" on the GoM floor

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You'll only find a handfull of well in the GOM that produced over 20,000BOPD, and that was in a fully a very favorable formation, fully completed, stim'med, and flowed into a dedicated test separator. None of that describes Macondo.

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And yet they were siphoning off 24,000 barrels a day shortly before they shut the well and oil was still overflowing the vents.

BP completely lied about how much oil they spilled, they'll lie about the impact, they'll lie about everything in order to save their asses. And O & G industry types will, for the most part, defend them. Why wouldn't they? Their livelihood depends on it as well.

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A link to a sourced report (citing more sourced reports) in which actual measurements were taken is not an argument from authority.

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You provided the naked link. With no commentary why you believed it to be correct. You did nothing except point to "here these fancy people said it was true".

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50 rigs constitutes

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First, they don't produce from rigs. I'm guessing by "rigs" you mean platforms. And those platforms have multiple wells to make those flowrates.

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I don't see why it's so counter-intuitive that an uncontrolled blowout would result in higher flow than a producing well?

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Didn't expect you to.

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There were days where they were collecting 25K from the well, and the collection rate was never close to 100%.

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I'm sure they had great separators on the Q4. Probably like 0%BS&W.

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Deepwater wells are hardly ever produced at their max capability, because operators have to worry about wear on equipment, storage logistics, and damage to the formation.

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No isht Sherlock. Though mostly it's formation drawdown and well packing survival that provides the upper bound to production rates in a formation like Macondo. And that's the point.

Somehow Macando with busted up casing, a bunch of trash in the bore, at least one annulus open to lower pressure reservoir, and a short non-production perf flowed over twice what the BHP and FP would predict to topsides. Pretty amazing.

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Wells that are being produced at that depth feature stable completions where the fluid comes through a bunch of small, inch-sized perforations, which lead to a small production tubing, then up to a christmas tree where it can be further regulated.

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Thanks for that. I had literally no idea. I thought they used those bendy straws.

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Not through a big damn hole in the casing leading up to jack shite.

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You're right. Generally, we try not to produce through the casing. and for good reason. For two phase entrained flow, you're going to get more hydrates, reduced or no "gas lift" effect, and a isht-ton volume of gas flashing off at the choke point crowding out the fluid flow. Oh, and at the top... It's choked flow either way... but at a at lower temperature and higher back pressure than you'd have in a topsides production environment.

Why would one expect a higher flowrate?

for what it's worth, i was in ft morgan three weeks ago. beach was beautiful and marine life was abound

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You provided the naked link. With no commentary why you believed it to be correct. You did nothing except point to "here these fancy people said it was true".

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Oh, then here: I find direct measurements to be more convincing than "controlled production wells only produce at N BOPD, therefore a blowout could not have exceeded N."

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Somehow Macando with busted up casing, a bunch of trash in the bore, at least one annulus open to lower pressure reservoir, and a short non-production perf flowed over twice what the BHP and FP would predict to topsides. Pretty amazing.

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What's pretty amazing is that in the same post where you pooh-pooh a technical report as "argument from authority" you just throw this stuff in without so much as a "the rabbit told me."

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You're right. Generally, we try not to produce through the casing. and for good reason. For two phase entrained flow, you're going to get more hydrates, reduced or no "gas lift" effect, and a isht-ton volume of gas flashing off at the choke point crowding out the fluid flow. Oh, and at the top... It's choked flow either way... but at a at lower temperature and higher back pressure than you'd have in a topsides production environment.

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This isn't even a response to what I said, it's just furious dick-waggling. The production wells you're talking about have chokes at the seafloor. The topside environment is irrelevant to your overall claim. Are you saying that effect of the water pressure at Macondo was a net negative on flow rates compared to a typical subsea choke?

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This isn't even a response to what I said,

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You shouldn't expect one from Taxing Authority. He is a fraud who can't even read a simple PR piece from BP yet somehow throws out little minutia about the flow rates of wells in the GOM.

But don't worry, he has read a 90 year old book on propaganda and since it doesn't mention propaganda in modern advertising then such a thing must not exist.