So several weeks were spent trying to clean up the well for the flow test.
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Once the flow test is completed, it may be as few as 20 days to commercial production.
We believe that the goal remains to flow test the well as soon as possible, before year-end 2010.
Once the flow test was initiated, MMR maintained a very tight radio silence that lasted for three weeks.
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True believers are so beaten down that they are afraid to believe the flow test is really at hand.
This story dwarfs whether or not Davy Jones will have a successful flow test this week or this month.
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Moffett knows that once he has a successful flow test and has production online, he will be the belle of the ball.
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Only one of the 40 wells drilled by others into the Wilcox Sands in mile deep water has ever had a flow test.
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Equipment is being constructed for delivery in the weeks ahead and the plan is to flow test Davy Jones 1 in December.
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Of course, until a flow test is successful, nothing is certain.
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But post Macondo, Uncle Sam made MMR roll the rig back out of the way and close off the well before a flow test could be completed (No longer a requirement).
The flow test will show what is in the well, how much production will flow out, and how rapidly the well will clean itself up and be ready for connection to the nearby pipeline.
Twenty20 cricket does not have the ebb and flow that Test cricket has, when you have to think a bit more on your feet.
"Disastrous flooding puts near 7 feet of flow in buildings in the jet engine test facility at Kelly AFB, " the National Weather Service said.
This under-displaced spacer provided the unexplained extra 700 psi of pressure and the anomalous flow volumes that were to persist throughout the negative test, confusing the crew.
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Its saga up to the present is a heroic tale of inspired design, scrapes with industry incumbents, never-ending cash-flow problems--and even the deaths of two test pilots.
For private equity investors, the final test is whether a venture will generate sufficient cash flow to service the debt they plan to pile on it in order to pay themselves big dividends and recoup their initial investment--to "get their bait back, " in Wall Street parlance.
The measure Schumer is proposing says that in civil and criminal cases, "a judge would have to conduct a balancing test that would weigh the public interest in the free flow of information against the needs of law enforcement, " said Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon.
BEIJING U.S. investors warmed up to the first initial public offering by a Chinese company in the U.S. in eight months, an initial test of demand in a market where the once-regular flow of Chinese firms has given way to a wave of departures.
For one thing, this kind of high-speed innovation seems to require a near-addiction to a rapid flow of data that everyone can agree on, with a good feedback loop to test ideas.
I, for one, am not persuaded that the co-cured composite wings and phased array radar technologies identified for "flow-back" to the United States under the FS-X deal meet that test.
And they performed a "WIGGLE" test. (I know you will find this hard to believe, but that is NOT an acronym for Wire Integration Gross Gyration Looseness Exam -- it's just a plain old wiggle test.) In any case, the wires all checked out -- and on went the flow toward a January 19 launch.
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