Right now, the company says, it has removed that mud from the hole, but it believes that barite from the oil-based mud has blocked the flow.

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Davy Jones was so eager to cough up its bounty from a massive high-quality reservoir 200 feet thick that McMoran several months ago had to control the flow by filling the hole heavy drilling mud.

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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.

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Importantly, this mud also acts as a kind of plug in the hole, preventing any oil and gas from blasting up out of the hole.

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