[QUOTE=pumpjack hand;34790]The tool pusher should have time to do the schematics, walk over and discuss it with the driller for critical stopping points. If not, until we get the automation that should be hand in with the bop, if they were getting $533,000/day for that rig they should charge $534,000/day and hire a statistician.
It’s obvious the ability to drill a well in deepwater has outpaced the ability to handle the worst case scenario. But that just means handling the worst case scenario will have to catch up so we can proceed: http://www.aoghs.org/pdf/conroe.pdf
I grew up in a town where they build very large submarines and they designed a submarine oil transport 50 years ago to pass under the Arctic but no one bought it. I believe the underwater tech is doable but it will just take some time. In Long Beach 80 years ago they were lucky to get within 500’ of their deviated target but now we can drill several miles horizontally within a few feet using the exact same mechanics but advanced design. Someday we’ll be auto-drilling in the deep trenches.
“ He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, [I]Beyond Good and Evil, Aphorism 146[/I]
[I]German philosopher (1844 - 1900)[/I][/QUOTE]
“What does not kill us makes us stronger” Nietzsche
My father told me this when I was a boy…working on his fishing boat.
Unfortunately, it did kill some of us…
We may never know all of what caused this…that is, until the sea gives up her dead.