On May 3, 2010, at 12:10 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
No one could have envisioned, after already drilling the well and measuring all the downhole pressures, that during well changeover, there'd be enough pressure to push that much drill pipe out....and that the drill pipe wouldn't be held by the cement.
Wait .. drill pipe, or casing? Looked like they were in the process of casing the well to get it ready for production, which would mean casing, in which case you're absolutely right about the magnitude of the forces involved and what they'd do to the cutoffs and blowout preventers at the underwater wellhead. Unless the casing wasn't set right, or the cement hadn't cured enough ..
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