Well it better not blow up and catch the earth on fire, I have to mow my grass this weekend.

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15 VW Passat TDI
00 E420
98 E300 DT
97 E420 Donor Car - NEED PARTS? PM ME!
97 S500
97 E300D
86 Holden Jackaroo Turbo D
86 300SDL
(o\|/o)

We need to get a huge balloon ready to capture it.

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2006 Nissan Pathfinder LE
1998 Acura 3.0 CL
OBK#44
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

SOLD
1985 300TD - Red Dragon
1986 300SDL - Coda
1991 - 300TE
1995 - E320
1985 300CD - Gladys

Ok......that is just plain cool.

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1982 300GD Carmine Red (DB3535) Cabriolet Parting Out
1990 300SEL Smoke Silver (Parting out)
1991 350SDL Blackberry Metallic (481)

"The thing is Bob, its not that I'm lazy...its that I just don't care."

Than it will smell like oily farts down where you live, bet I could buy some waterfront property cheap.

2 dollars a lot for waterfront oily fart land.

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1999 SL500
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

The pressure from water at a depth of 1 mile is 2400 psi. The oil is at a greater pressure if flowing out of the pipe.
An oilman on Chris Matthew's show used the figure 30,000 psi, on closed captioning. Numbers are sometimes miscaptioned, so he may actually have said 3,000 psi.

Egads! 30ksi is in the range of yield stresses for aluminum alloys

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1982 240D, sold 9/17/2008
1987 300D TurboW124.133 - 603.960, 722.317 - Smoke Silver Metallic / Medium Red (702/177), acquired 8/15/2009
262,715 and counting

Yes it is. But I doubt aluminum is the material of choice for oil well casing.
With all the testing being done, it appears to me the casing is close to its structural limit. If the casing ruptures it will be just about impossible to cap the well.

Well, yup

Just pointing out the tenacity of a quantity that large. Time will tell

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1982 240D, sold 9/17/2008
1987 300D TurboW124.133 - 603.960, 722.317 - Smoke Silver Metallic / Medium Red (702/177), acquired 8/15/2009
262,715 and counting

I heard the well pressure was 18,000 psi, but I wasn't paying close attention.

OK, all goes well and this cap works, pressure checks etc etc.

They still plan to use a relief well to seal it ???

Why not hook up a pipe and take advantage of it ??

Other than the stigma of that well.
Maybe superstition (?) ???

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KLK, MCSE

1990 500SL

I was always taught to respect my elders.
I don't have to respect too many people anymore.

I'm trying to stay positive. Really I am.

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1980 300TD-China Blue/Blue MBTex-2nd Owner, 107K (Alt Blau) OBK #15
'06 Chevy Tahoe Z71 (for the wife & 4 kids, current mule) '03 Honda Odyssey (son #1's ride, reluctantly) '99 GMC Suburban (255K+ miles, semi-retired mule) 21' SeaRay Seville (summer escape pod)

And where the hell was this piece of equipment BEFORE the mother of all world Monkey F**ks occured?????????? Ah - Big DICK cheny figured it would be casual if this happened!

Cows smell the same at both ends.

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Never a dull moment at Berry Hill Farm.

No, the art of drilling at those depths is pretty much established. Dealing with blowouts is the X factor.

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i heard they put a wedding band on it and it quit putting out!!

How can you say that? They totally cluster****d the casing.