Deepwater Oil Spill - closing the well and the series

The operations to seal the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf have now succeeded in putting cement plugs into the well that have effectivel...

Deepwater Oil Spill - patiently waiting, Chilean drilling, and coal in Europe

Well, although the Admiral said that the intersection of the relief well with the Deepwater Horizon well would occur within 24-hours of his ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - approaching the well, and the birth of Hope

With very little change since yesterday in the situation in the Gulf, it may be time to start spreading these reviews out a little more, of ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the relief well restarts, and miners watch TV

Admiral Allen issued a statement today, in regard to the situation at the Deepwater Horizon well: After extensive consultation between BP ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - locking the hanger and relief well role

A short time ago I wrote about the concerns with the casing hanger in the Deepwater Horizon well, and the risk that it might lift and allow ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - a slight change in plan

I have not had a chance to read the BP report on the Deepwater Horizon disaster yet, and due to a couple of other activities (I returned to...

Deepwater Oil Spill - and this week's TWIP

Admiral Allen helped with the release of some of the rescued turtles from the Gulf today before giving his press conference at Cedar Key, i...

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 - 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 - start of the static kill

Progress on the relief well at the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached the point that BP have started the procedures for the top static k...