Top Kill failure raises worrying issue

[FluffyMcDeath]

If you read this article about the top kill failure and you get the bottom of the third paragraph you find this:

They said much of the drilling mud may also have escaped from the well into the rock formation outside the wellbore.

If the mud going down was escaping from the well bore, what is the oil coming up doing? If they cap it (putting up the pressure in the bore) how much high pressure oil is going to find an alternate route. This sounds potentially very bad.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

Potential bad news seems a little less potential, a little more bad. The well bore may be leaking

 

[Glaucus]

They need to get a really big rock and drop it on that {bleep} well. Only Super Man can save us now. We're so fucked.

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

And just for the heck of it ... another nearby well is also leaking. Not nearly as bad, but it suggests that there might be some work that the oil companies could do to improve the way they work.

 

[cecilia]

And just for the heck of it ... another nearby well is also leaking. Not nearly as bad, but it suggests that there might be some work that the oil companies could do to improve the way they work.

understatement of the year! :mrgreen:

 

[Glaucus]

The biggest environmental disaster ever, livelihoods destroyed, millions of fish killed and some maybe driven to extinction, the least we can do is laugh about it!

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