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An Ill-fated Discovery
According to news accounts, at about 10 p.m. CDT last Tuesday, Deepwater Horizon was stable, holding an exact position in calm, dark seas about 45 miles south of the Louisiana coastline. Water depth in the area is 5,000 feet. The vessel manifest listed 126 souls on board.Deepwater Horizon was finishing work on an exploration well named Macondo, in an area called Mississippi Canyon Block 252. After weeks of drilling, the rig had pushed a bit down over 18,000 feet, into an oil-bearing zone. The Transocean and BP personnel were installing casing in the well. BP was going to seal things up, and then go off and figure out how to produce the oil -- another step entirely in the oil biz.
The Macondo Block 252 reservoir may hold as much as 100 million barrels. That's not as large as other recent oil strikes in the Gulf, but BP management was still pleased. Success is success --
certainly in the risky, deep-water oil environment. The front office of BP Exploration was preparing a press release to announce a "commercial" oil discovery.
Transocean Deepwater Horizon Explosion-A Discussion of What Actually Happened? - Drilling Ahead
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Am seeding this article published in Drilling Ahead on 26 April 2010, 6 days after that fateful blowout.
We will be publishing a series of articles in the light of incriminating key evidence from the early videos at http://oilspillhub.org. Let us revisit the crime scene and see what lessons we can learn. Hope you can join us to see how badly we were all deceived. See the difference between reality and virtual; mega oil spill Vs killing spree in the Gulf.
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