Drilling a new well to shut down the Gulf of Mexico oil blowout.

OK, I've read that they're trying to drill "relief wells."

It looks like they plan to drill down and "intersect the wellbore" on the leaking well 13,000 feet below the ocean bottom.

What I want to know is how do they manage to hit such a small target that far down? Do they really know the position of the well bore and bit closely enough to make a pipe a few feet wide hit another pipe 13,000 feet below? Is there some sort of "sniffer" on the end of the relief well bit that can detect the bore of the other well?

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Permalink Reply by oil guy on May 25, 2010 at 8:34
yea, you know the well
Permalink Reply by Mac Davis on May 25, 2010 at 9:39
Thanks. Vector "Magnetics" makes me think it's some sort of metal detector thing looking for the other well bore. That makes a lot of sense.
Permalink Reply by The_Baron on May 26, 2010 at 3:11
I say we try pumping Obama down the hole....

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