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To: tejek who wrote (75777)	5/24/2010 12:55:55 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

Yeah,but the junk shot is sort of modified top kill, and there is another plan behind that, which I will track down, just fer you. They depend on the top kill not damaging what is left of the BOP, tho. Official: BP 'devastated' by Gulf oil spill cnn.com comment... Dudley also mentioned trying a third option if the top kill and junk shot fail - "And then we've got a third step we can take. It's something called loss circulation material." From glossary.oilfield.slb.com. "The collective term for substances added to drilling fluids when drilling fluids are being lost to the formations downhole. Commonly used lost-circulation materials include are fibrous (cedar bark, shredded cane stalks, mineral fiber and hair), flaky (mica flakes and pieces of plastic or cellophane sheeting) or granular (ground and sized limestone or marble, wood, nut hulls, Formica, corncobs and cotton hulls). Laymen have likened lost-circulation materials to the "fix-a-flat" materials for repair of automobile tires." theoildrum.com