Sentences with phrase «drilling mud»

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.

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.

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.

The gas hydrates may then flow upward with drilling mud or other discharged fluids.

If it fails, it could make the environmental mess even worse, releasing the toxic materials present in drilling mud — which can be a variety of things but usually includes some trace amounts of elements like zinc, nickel, chromium, copper, lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury — into the Gulf's ecosystem.

During an early December nightshift, an employee of the Respondent, Precision Drilling Canada Limited Partnership, mistakenly mixes sulfamic acid into drilling mud instead of caustic potash.

An image taken Thursday night from one of BP's video cameras monitoring the oil and drilling mud flowing from its damaged well.

Drilling mud went into the well again on August 3, followed on August 4 by a 1.5 kilometer - long cement plug.

Scientists drill mud cores into the sediments under the oceans, ice cores in the Arctic and Antarctica, examine tree rings, or use the chemistry found in caves (stalagmites) as climatic proxies.

But after Rauschenberg's Mud Muse — a huge vat of industrial - drilling mud which bubbled and burped in response to auditory signals — set off a frenzy of mud throwing and smearing at the opening of an E.A.T. show in Los Angeles, support evaporated.

As for increased sealife around oil rigs as a good thing (previous comment)-- please note that sea life congregates around outcroppings in the ocean — in the case of oil rigs though, the sea life ends up with dangerously high levels of mercury from mercury contaminated drilling muds.

With the oil staunched, Chu allowed BP to proceed with a so - called «static kill» — another attempt to push the oil back down the well with heavy drilling mud, made much easier by the fact that the oil no longer had a clear path out of the seafloor.

Even Burland isn't entirely sure of the recipe, although he says it includes some bentonite, used in the oil industry as a component of drilling mud, and that the mix is nontoxic and viscous enough to stop the ground from squeezing it.

The government itself has three logistical bases to service wildcatters with pipe, drilling mud, and other gear.

At the completion of drilling, up to five per cent C1 gas was encountered in the drilling mud.

But the Chikyu will use a new drilling technology, stabilizing and lubricating its borehole with seawater instead of the drilling muds that have often caused contamination in the past.

Of course, the chances of the top kill succeeding are good but not great; BP's CEO admits the chances of stopping the oil flow with a drilling mud / concrete one - two punch sit somewhere between 60 % and 70 %.

Dumptrucks for gravel; 18 wheelers for supplies, water, waste, drilling mud, pipe, fuel, cement and oil; flatbeds for excavators and rig equipment — plus hundreds of trips in work trucks and pickups.

Officials from both the oil giant and the government gave the impression Thursday morning that their efforts to plug the gushing well with heavy drilling mud were working — even though the company had stopped pumping mud around midnight on Wednesday.

As heavy drilling mud is pumped through the well in hopes of overcoming the upward force from the pressurized oil and gas, one can only hope there will be a telegenic high - five moment for the hard - working engineers working relentlessly on the crisis since late April.

Postscript: Tonight, BP resumed efforts to choke the well with heavy drilling mud, with no assurance of success and two or three more possible solutions in the wings.