But for shale gas, once the drill reaches the shale rock underground, the drill bit is turned horizontally to bore a well that stretches through the natural gas producing shale.

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This is what this data is supposed to monitor, but the well flow evidence would appear to have been ignored, because at this point the BP rig supervisors should have gone to a well kill operation and started to pump heavy mud back into the well bore to restore the primary control mechanism.

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More fluid was coming out of the well than was going in, a sign that natural gas might have been intruding into the well bore.

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Normally, when a well begins to flow, the release of pressure cleans up the well bore of contaminants and other debris in the hole during the first few hours it is opened up.

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Before long, the girl had swung around to my seat to demonstrate her double-jointed elbows and thumbs as well as a disturbingly loud clack in her jaw when she opened her mouth full bore.

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So in an attempt not to bore loved ones with a barrage of imagery, I will cull the best photos from my storage drives, as well as those taken by friends and others, and share a short tale associated with that image.

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During the pumping and displacement of the heavyweight spacer used to displace the mud, a breach in pressure integrity resulted in the undetected loss of drilling mud into the probably uncemented well-bore.

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