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Permalink Reply by Bobi Carr ("parker") on June 20, 2010 at 16:47

Once one of the two relief wells intersects the damaged line, BP plans to pump heavy drilling mud in to stop the oil flow and plug the blown-out well with cement.

"It's really not a tough thing to do," said Mickey Fruge, the wellsite leader aboard the DDII for BP

LET'S HOPE HE'S RIGHT!

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on June 21, 2010 at 3:45

I saw a program on tv that showed a animation of how that kill well is suppose to work.
They said the plugging mud, cement, etc., they will be pumping in to plug it will be flowing with the pressure up the original well rather than against the pressure that would they'd have to do now without the kill well. The thing I'm curious about is once they intersect the original well, won't that just pressurize the second well of which they will be pumping their mud against? Wouldn't the oil and gas be wanting to start coming out of the kill well like the original well?

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