[QUOTE=Earl Boebert;68539]Here I am again with another question; Google wasn’t my friend on this one 
What are the strategic alternatives to temporary abandonment of an exploratory well such as Macondo? Obviously, if it’s a dry hole it’s plugged and abandoned. What other options are there if oil is found?
I ask this because the BP company man who was on Deepwater Horizon up to four months before the incident testified that in seven years the crew had done at most four “completions.” What could he have meant by that?
Cheers,
Earl[/QUOTE]
The minimum temporary abandonment (suspended) would be with drilling fluid with a higher hydrostatic pressure than reservoir, two temporary plugs one across the lowest casing shoe and another higher up and a wellhead at seabed.
A full temporary abandonment would have completion/production string with completion fluid, mechanical plugs and a xmas tree at the seabed. In this case the well is ready to produce. If the production/completion string is complex, completion engineers come aboard to assist.
What BP were attempting was fairly close to the former. What you quoted is largely irrelevant as Deepwater Horizon was not running a completion. The abandonment they were attempting was not technically difficult and with normal drilling practice should have succeeded.