The BP company pumped heavy drilling fluids,known as mud, into the top of its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico.

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They get stuck in the mud, and this forces them to give up the chase.

他们陷入了泥中，所以放弃了追捕。

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He was the kid who was covered with mud for seven days, He said, "It doesn't look the same to me anymore, I think there were sort of spiritual awakening for him during that.

当时，他还是个孩子,远足的七天里，他浑身是泥，他说：“我对风雨的认识有了改变，可能在这次远足中,他有了灵性上的觉醒。

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In a lot of wells I saw that the zone was taking drilling mud, soaking it up and leaving a layer of mud cake across a permeable interval of the wellbore.

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She explained how to find the mud house on Rue 141, past the water tower also made of mud, in a neighborhood less than a mile from where he sold gasoline from jerrycans by the roadside.

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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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