Exxon was afraid of the high pressures and temperatures it was encountering down hole.
The Blow Out Preventer is off the well which is being controlled by a down hole safety valve.
Yes, most entrepreneurs do fail, and in doing so apparently flush capital down a hole.
Over this year, much has been learned but lots more money has been poured down the hole.
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It has also been tried (albeit that the water in question was frozen) by putting detectors down a hole at the South Pole.
Problems arise from intense pressures and temperatures found down the hole.
In 1940, four teenagers, following their dog when it disappeared down a hole near Lascaux, France, discovered 17, 000-year-old drawings now known as the Lascaux Cave Paintings.
And the mud that had to be shoved down the hole to keep it under control in recent months has now been cleaned out of the hole.
It now appears that as they redrill to get the drilling muds moving again and so forth, they may be pushing the fish down the hole in front of the bit.
McMoran took over Blackbeard West some years ago and found hydrocarbons about 2500 feet below the point where Exxon Mobil gave up and poured cement down the hole to seal it.
The public should also understand that, in the case of an emergency, the frac contractor is required by law to disclose all chemicals that have gone down the hole to first responders on the scene.
With down-hole temperatures of 440 degrees F. and pressures of 27, 000 pounds per square inch, such depths proved too daunting and expensive for Exxon-Mobil (XOM), which sold its Blackbeard well, at the mouth of the Mississippi, to McMoRan in 2008.
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Entrepreneurs and con men sunk dozens of wells around Fort McMurray in the second half of the nineteenth century. (One enterprising German immigrant who claimed to have struck oil apparently poured the stuff down the hole himself.) Eventually, it became clear that there was no oil, and attention turned to mining the bitumen.
He then instructed me to lie down in the hole before shoveling scorched sand over my body.
New lending to Moscow center in this context is worse than throwing money down a black hole.
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So much so, perhaps, as to obscure the question of whether the money is headed down a rat hole.
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Four out of five times the investment would go down a rat hole.
Once you go down this rabbit hole, it's tough to get back out.
An obsession with going down the memory hole and retrieving what's buried there.
"Rather, for all intents and purposes you just took the money and poured it down a black hole, " Anderson wrote.
You could go very far down the rabbit hole trying to separate fact from fiction with these kind of stories.
If they rejected peace, then everything Olmert said would become null and void, and be tossed down the memory hole.
It turned out that buying a home in the U.S. in those years was like throwing money down a rat hole.
Most of their colleagues wish they would fall down a deep hole.
We've only just begun to make our way down this rabbit hole.
No long faces standing around in the rain, staring down into a hole in the ground while someone drones on about how wonderful I was.
Meanwhile, Rory, on the other hand, has fallen down a large hole in a room full of old, seemingly inactive Daleks and accidentally wakes the them.
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