relief wells way to circumvent moratorium

the relief well isnt going to produce oil right away if ever. it intercepts the origional well and pumps mud into it until it kills the well

then it is cemented in and PnA'd

think of it this way, they intercept the well ~20,000' down then start pumping. it becomes solid heavy arse mud from 0'-20,000' thats SO HEAVY that it all sinks down into the reservoir and kills it


think of it as the pressure on a diver the further he goes down in the water

after a while it'll crush him

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if they just stop it up, worried the government moratorium on drilling will prevent them from getting to this site. if we keep drilling with "relief" wells it allows us t kep driling to capture oil to "save" the beaches. when the realy want to capture oil to make money

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Nah, I think it's to keep the gulf from getting 10X as much oil as present. Now that I think about it, it's actually in everyone's best interest to get as much oil out of this area ASAP and onto tankers. (Drill, baby, drill?)