Sentences with phrase «heavy drilling mud»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

The options on the table include drilling a relief well, the safest but also slow and costly, and pumping heavy mud into the stricken well from the platform itself, faster but far more dangerous.