in its simplest form it is a liquid containing a lot of suspended solid particles. You may have seen and used something similar yourself in your car radiator when it has sprung a water leak. something like “RadSeal”?.. a liquid with bits of cork in it. When the liquid flows around the cooling system, the bits of cork end up in the holes/leak points and hopefully plug the hole from the inside of the pipe/radiator.
Same principle applies to LCM. However, nowadays technology has progressed a bit, and like Araldite, you can have a base fluid and an accelerator which when mixed will set “hard?” after a certain period of time.
Bring onto the stage a recipe like “Formaset”.
LCM is designed to fill holes/voids/cracks and crannies so to speak.
Pass it thru’ the inside bore of a BOP where there are lots of such spaces and where do you think that LCM will collect?
Pass that LCM thru’ a 3" diameter pipe with a choke on the end (ie a choke line and choke manifold) and guess what might happen?
oops. consequences of an inoperable choke?.. if the choke line becomes plugged up, then there is the kill line that could be used.
if the choke manifold and valves and chokes become plugged up… then the only option is to somehow clean them. Trying to do that under well control conditions is not simple and needs to be carefully planned/scrutinized/controlled etc.[/QUOTE]
LCM pill in kill and choke line maybe also caused false pressure readings!
[QUOTE=ExCompanyMan;40083]He is a joke. Waste of time to interview him. [/QUOTE]
That appears to be the case.
[QUOTE=ExCompanyMan;40083]Looks like he was training to be a Well Site Team Leader?!!![/QUOTE]
What a comfort!
Summary of testimony:
I don’t know.
I couldn’t tell you.
I don’t remember saying that.
I don’t recall.
I’m not aware.
I took little notes.
I counted the boats.
My testimony is rote.
[QUOTE=ExCompanyMan;40083]He is a joke. Waste of time to interview him. Looks like he was training to be a Well Site Team Leader?!!![/QUOTE]
He is the one who was a Well Site Team Leader on Land for 2 years (supervised 5 land wells). Was now training to become an offshore Team Leader. Why did they send him to a deep water drilling rig??? He should have been sent to a jackup or platform rig. PS: he has Bachelor in Business?!!! What types do BP hire?
Summary of testimony:
I don’t know.
I couldn’t tell you.
I don’t remember saying that.
I don’t recall.
I’m not aware.
I took little notes.
I counted the boats.
My testimony is rote.[/QUOTE]
He did say he was not really aware of the purpose of circulating bottoms up prior to cementing; waffled little about conditioning the mud… How about circulating out any possible gas from bottom!!!
BP Plc, the U.K. company battling a a record oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, agreed to sell assets in North America and Egypt to Apache Corp. for $7 billion as part of its plans to raise cash to fund its liabilities.
Oil fields and gas processing plants in Texas and southeast New Mexico worth $3.1 billion;
BP’s upstream Western Canadian gas business for $3.25 billion;
Oil exploration and production assets in Egypt worth about $650 million.
Hey John <adm.>, I missed the court proceedings today, was that you, I saw on Cspan,yest. sitting next to Steve Gordon?,BTW…Steve Gordon, is a very dedicated attorney.
In the plan for the casing and cementing , the negative test was to be done with base oil = this would have been a better test (greter differential on seal assembly) than just using seawater
Anyone know why it was changed?? I have not heard any mention of this in any dicoument (including the lastest “anomolies” one)
[QUOTE=AHTF;40078]yer quotin newspaper articles. get real.![/QUOTE]
No, court documents, actually. Facts: Scotland isn’t England, but I suppose all white guys look the same to you.
Five injured in fire on jack-up boat helping oil spill response
by Mike Hoss / Eyewitness News
Posted on July 20, 2010 at 9:43 PM
PLAQUEMINES, La. – Plaquemines Parish officials have confirmed there has been a fire on board one of the jack up boats helping in the oil spill clean up effort.
According to officials, five people suffered minor injuries.
The incident took place in Baptiste Collette Bayou, one of the passes off of the Mississipppi River not far from Venice.
Plaquemines officials say it was not one of the parish jack up boats, but they couldn’t say if it was operated by BP.
Officials weren’t sure if the five injured were being brought back by ambulance or helicopter.
The panel was caught off-guard by the cancellations Tuesday and was forced to cancel Wednesday’s hearing. The hearings will continue Thursday, Coast Guard Capt. Hung Nguyen said.
Three other scheduled witnesses have previously refused to show up for one reason or another. One, BP company man Robert Kaluza, invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. His fellow company man, Donald Vidrine, has twice called in sick. And toolpusher Wyman Wheeler, a Transocean employee, didn’t show up Monday because of an illness.
In addition, Transocean executive Daun Winslow had been scheduled to testify Wednesday and had to reschedule to August hearings in Houston.
Coast Guard spokesman Chief Mike O’Berry said Wednesday’s four witnesses had all agreed to testify voluntarily, then withdrew. He said subpoenas compelling them to appear had not been issued yet.
[QUOTE=alcor;40021]CM1, Where have you suddenly and miraculously identified a leak? Have BP stated that the well is Capped without any apparent leaks? And yet, you have apparently found footage of a leak. Remember, since day one, top brass of other companies and Gov’t have been in a position to fight this well, and seek methods of killing it. On occasion, you are quite insightful as to what may or may not be going on. On other occasions, you make unsubstantiated statements which shouldn’t be posted, without a visual reference in this case.
BP, have the eyes of the world watching. Experts are in place to make decisions. You, are a mere amateur by comparison.[/QUOTE]
There is no miracle to the video. It is what it is. Before you open your mouth to put your foot in it you should check out the post on page 195. It is a link to a youtube video of the plume that another poster IM’d me about last week before there was any admittance of a leak away from the well head. All your BP is wonderful & the rest of the world is all screwed up bullshit is irrelevant now because you know as well as I that they’re stuck. They can’t flow it because only bad things can happen if they do. They can’t try a top kill because only bad things will happen if they do. They can’t keep it shut in indefinitely, because only bad things will happen if they do. In short, we the citizens of the United States are screwed compliments of your heros. So you can ramble incoherently about how smart they are & how dumb people like me are, but your bosses caused this thing.