Reply #6: You'd better start praying then hadn't you? ...

[Nihil]

> 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.

... seeing as this is how EVERY SINGLE CAPPED WELL in the Gulf or any other
submarine field has been sealed (and some of those are getting pretty long
in the tooth by now).

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There again, you could just be yet another panic-monger without a clue.
:think: