Gulf relief well downward to final, tricky 100 feet.NEW ORLEANS – The relief glowing being drill to ensure rough never again spill into the sea from BP's paralyzed fit in the Gulf of Mexico have been dubbed the ultimate solution to the drama that's outspread over the precedent three months.
It's the final, exciting act as one man guide a drill more than two miles less than the sea floor plus three miles from the surface, demanding to hit a target less than half the size of a dartboard. The pierce is about as wide because a grapefruit and the goal now lie less than 100 feet left.
If John Wright misses, extra BP engineers will draw the drill bit up, pour existing in the off-track hole with then try again. Wright is 40-for-40, though; have helped capped wells across the earth in four decades of engineering work. And he seems confident in a June video place out by BP that he could create it 41-for-41.
"Out of 40 reliefs well that I've drilled, we've by no means missed yet," said Wright. "I've got tall confidence we will get care of this problem as quickly as we can get there."
Work begins during the weekend to come to an end drilling the well, and group and government officials pronounce they could hit their goal as early as Friday. If it hit, engineers will make a "bottom kill" by heavy in mud and strengthen to permanently fasten the blown-out well that's spew an estimated 207 million gallons because April.
In three months, the release well has been sprint more than 17,900 feet beginning its rig. But drill the final stretch, a section slightly longer than the coldness from third base to home on a baseball field, spirit be a time-consuming as well as careful process.
Crews dig regarding 20 to 30 feet at a time, and then run electric current from side to side the relief well. The current create a magnetic field in the pipe of the broken well, allowing engineers to work out exactly where as well as how far they want to drill.
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