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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: LTK007 who wrote (257483)6/29/2010 6:31:35 PM
From: Elroy JetsonRead Replies (2) of 306849
 
Apart from BP's surely fictional completion date of August 15 which assumes everything goes perfectly on the first go, and the delays caused by hurricanes, the relief well will not have a problem intercepting the well and pumping in mud.

It should not be more difficult for the fluxgate magnetometer in the relief well to detect the metal casing and drill pipe of the original bore in this deep well than it is in other wells.

There is the second relief well which can be used to intercept at another location, not be used, or possibly be used for production some distance away.

A team from Schlumberger or the like can also use the second relief well to place a down-hole electrode to create a strong magnetic field to highlight the displacement in the known field caused by the original well. A weaker field of a different frequency might be also induced from the site of the BOP.

As soon as they get mud pumped from the relief well to pour out of the damaged BOP, we will all have a much better idea what sort of damage BP's shoddy well design has incurred. That will determine the well kill procedures to be used.
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