BP Official Admits to Damage BENEATH THE SEA FLOOR

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How long would it take for the entire pocket of oil to exhaust itself? Do you reach a point where you just have to let this reserve bleed itself out?

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According to Wiki, they estimated there was approx 50 million barrels of oil in the Macondo Oil Field.

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If the casing is blown out below the BOP, my question is:

1. Is all of it blown out...from the BOP to the Resevoir?

2. And, if not, will the relief well intersect below the point of where the casing is blown out?

There are multiple strings of casing run inside each other. The leak is between inner casing strings, otherwise it wouldn't be coming up the BOP at all. Nothing is leaking outside the surface pipe.

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According to Wiki, they estimated there was approx 50 million barrels of oil in the Macondo Oil Field.

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not only does this suck now but it brings the day we run out of oil closer which will probably be far wores day than the days we are expirencing now

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We won't ever run out of oil. The Saudi's have PLENTY!

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WOW! Do you really believe that?

OK, I just read the article but so what if the oil isn't going up the regular route. We have known this for weeks. Why would that prevent the cementing of the well? Are is there something magical about it running up the outside of the well pipe that prevents the laws of physics from acting the same way as it does withing the drill pipe.

They are drilling to intercept at 18000 feet which is almost to the reservoir itself. They speculate that the "leak" is at 1000 feet. Even if this is wrong I just don't see this being a factor other than having the final solution take a bit longer due to more mud being needed.

Simply intersect at 1800. If the leak is above there you MIGHT need to slow the oil coming out of the BOP to get enough mud to go down at the intersect point. BIG DEAL?

If the leak is below 18000 feet it should still be easier to stop the like with bottom kill than top kill as the pressure differential will be many thousands of pounds less at the bottom of the well. Worst case I see would be we temp. stop the oil at the bottom like we already did at the top and then pump cement in from the BOP! You could force cement all the way from the BOP to the Leak point, which would be 1000 times more cement than is needed to plug the well from the top. Then after that has hardened you just pump a shite load of cement into the bottom and plug up from the bottom.

I am not expert but I fail to see how this could prevent the bottom kill from working.