Deepwater Oil Spill - what will the relief well find?

With Labor Day weekend, and the recovery of the blowout preventer from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the remaining parts...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the two options

So who makes the decision? BP are now faced with a couple of problems that may have arisen because of a false assumption early in the proc...

Deepwater Oil Spill - how to deal with a dead well?

The Admiral confirmed, in his Friday press conference , that the negative pressure test on the Deepwater well held steady for 24-hours with...

Deepwater Oil Spill - is the well dead already?

Much of the focus of recent efforts at the Deepwater Horizon well site have been focussed on getting the relief well down to do a bottom kil...

Deepwater Oil Spill - relief well intersection version 2

Both Admiral Allen and Kent Wells (audio only no transcript yet) held press conferences today. The primary focus in both cases was the w...

Deepwater Oil Spill - details of the cement kill

New facts continue to emerge from the press conferences of Kent Wells and Admiral Allen in regard to the current state of the killing of t...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Waiting for the cement to set

BP began pumping cement into the Deepwater well at 9:15 am CDT on Thursday and stopped the operation at 14:15 CDT , having thereby pumped c...

Deepwater Oil Spill - Cementing the well

The Deepwater well has now reached a point where the mud inside the well is applying enough weight to the fluid in the formation that the fl...

Deepwater Oil Spill - adding mud to the well

Admiral Allen held another briefing today in which he elaborated a little more about the procedures to be followed when the two wells, the ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the last cement job?

The first relief well at the Deepwater Horizon site appears to be close to setting the last casing in the new hole, before the final step of...

Deepwater Oil Spill - closing in on the well

Well with Alex trundling off towards Mexico , the second area of concern having dissipated, and the two +3 earthquakes in Iceland being Nor...

Deepwater Oil Spill - preparing for cement

Admiral Allen, who is the Government head of the effort to cap the flowing well in the Gulf, and to oversee the cleanup operation, commented...