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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (76201)	5/26/2010 9:46:53 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Heading Out on May 26, 2010 - 7:30pm Ah, in the Press Conference Doug Suttles said that they are only injecting mud at the rate of 20 barrels a minute. (7,000 barrels over 6 hours). This is less than half the anticipated flow (50 barrels) and they may have dropped the injection flow rate to keep pressures in the BOP at an acceptable level. That does increase the time it will take to fill the well significantly (by several hours, depending on the leak rate). Though it also shows that those estimates that the well was leaking at 100,000 barrels a day were fantasy. It would take 87.5% of the mud injected being lost to leaks, for it to take 22 hours to fill the well, and that would indicate that the leakage rate was 25,000 bd. No answer yet to this... Diverdan on May 26, 2010 - 7:48pm Mud rate probably higher now after ramping up.I wouldn't use the average. Does your 25000 BOPD account for gas?