2. That headline will be followed by this one: BP cement seal fails. Oil gushing again.
Edited on Thu Aug-05-10 02:33 PM by breadandwine
The cement is not designed to withstand the pressures of the crude at that depth.
What's now holding down the crude is heavy drilling mud. Heavy drilling mud is made of a liquid such as oil mixed with heavy crushed rock. That's a SUSPENSION and suspensions are not permanent. Eventually the crushed rock will settle out of suspension and sink down into the crude oil reservoir. Then the drilling mud will be no heavier than the crude and the pressure of the crude will push back up, destroying the cement even after it has hardened. The cement seal is going to eventually fail.
For the same reason the RELIEF WELL is also going to fail eventually.
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