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The Associated Press reports that faulty cementing was responsible for at least 34 offshore well incidents since 1978.
The report says that cement standards are far stricter for buildings, bridges and roads than they are for the oil and gas industry. There is no federal regulation for wells and drillers are only encouraged to rely upon American Petroleum Institute (API) guidelines; API is a trade group.
Transocean, owner of the Deepwater Horizon platform that exploded and sank last month, blames Halliburton’s cement work on the well for the tragedy that killed 11 workers and injured 17.
Experts say that shoddy cement work is the cause of many offshore well incidents. Sometimes the cause is poor mixing or poor placement against the well walls.
A November 2005 accident in another well almost directly below where the Deepwater Horizon sat in the Gulf of Mexico resulted in 15,000 gallons of drilling fluid spilling after steel casing came apart from poor cement work.
Source: Associated Press
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