On the afternoon of May 26, BP technicians fired up pumps rated at a total of 30,000 horsepower and began shooting heavy drilling mud into the well. (scientificamerican.com)
Admiral Allen added that one of the ships that was injecting drilling mud into the well has run out of it and that a second ship is coming. (treehugger.com)
As we've seen in Ohio with the ETP's Rover Pipeline and even more recently in Pennsylvania with Sunoco's Mariner East Pipeline, blowouts and leaks of drilling mud during horizontal directional drilling are not uncommon. (chesapeakeclimate.org)