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BP well caved in weeks before explosion

Posted on Jun 01, 2010

E-mails released by the government Monday reveal that BP PLC was having serious problems with its well in the Gulf of Mexico six weeks before the Deepwater Horizon platform explosion.

One of those e-mails sent from a company executive to the Minerals Management Service (MMS) dated March 10 indicated that there was a “well control situation” involving a stuck pipe in Mississippi Canyon Block 252. Steps were being taken to cut the pipe, plug the hole and bypass the well.

Bloomberg reports that e-mails showed that there had been a cave in onto the drill equipment.

On March 11, the MMS granted verbal approval for BP to install a cement plug approximately 750 feet above the well bottom, which was shallower than the normal plugging depth.

The e-mails were released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee which is investigating the disaster. The April 20 explosion killed 11 workers and resulted in the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history.

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