Sentence examples for barrels of mud from inspiring English sources
An estimated 2,000 barrels of mud is to be flooded into the well this week.
But on Saturday, Mr. Suttles said the operation had pumped 30,000 barrels of mud into the well and yet failed to stop it from flowing.
In the static kill procedure, engineers poured 2,300 barrels of mud at slow but gradually accelerating speeds from a surface vessel through a choke line into the blowout preventer on top of the well and into the oil reservoir.
The water would exert less pressure on the oil and gas down below, which is why it was important that concrete seals were in place to avoid any blowout.Anthony Gervasio, an engineer on the supply ship into which the drilling mud was being pumped, testified that on the night of the disaster they had stopped work around dinnertime, after getting 3,100 barrels of mud stored away.
He said that more than 7,000 barrels of drilling mud had been pumped at varying rates.
A fifth attempt finally intersected the original on Nov. 1, and about 3,400 barrels of heavy mud were pumped through the relief well into the base of the original well.
Above it the Q4000 rig and three attendant vessels have 50,000 barrels of peculiarly heavy drilling mud and pumps capable of providing 30,000 horsepower with which to muscle that mud into the well.The blowout preventer's control pod, which was also originally connected to the lost rig, has been taken up to the Q4000, where it has been tested and attached to new cables.
In the past year weve seen ConocoPhillips leak 700 barrels into Chinas Bohai Bay and Chevron a couple thousand barrels of oil-tainted drilling mud off Brazil.
Then a river of mud came barreling through the house, upending them both, filling Youngblood's nose and mouth with muck.
They say they broke into the warehouse, emptied hundreds of barrels of their yellow and brown mud, took them to the wells and canals and filled them with water for cooking, bathing and drinking.
And here is where I get concerned -- The broken casing of DWH lost untold tons of mud and uncounted thousands or hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil into an intermediate layer somewhere in the thousands of feet thick sediment overlying the reservoir and capping rocks.
