[QUOTE=company man 1;31935] The biggest part of this situation that bothers me is that this well somehow magically blew out at surface. I have been on many well control situations & it doesn’t happen that way. The riser held somewhere in the neighborhood of 1900 Bbls. If the well blew out @ 20,000 Bbls./day it would have taken 1/10 day or over 2 hours to come in with that much hydrocarbon to cause an explosion. I also don’t understand how they were just circulating the rise & finished with the job & there is flow coming up the work string.[/QUOTE]
The rumor I’m hearing is they were not circulating, they were displacing… with seawater! According to my source BP had just put in a request to MMS to P&A and orders from town were to recover as much of the (expensive) synthetic mud as possible before leaving location. I can’t confirm this, but I did hear it from two sources.
Does MMS make P&A requests publicly available?