I can't read all of the posts but do they know what caused the explosion on the oil rig?

[leftyladyfrommo]

Just wondering.

I am just sick about this. But you know it was going to happen somewhere with all those oil rigs out there off shore. Could just as easily have been off the California Coast.

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. I think they supect the cement at the wellhead.

[Merchant Marine]

2. Rumor has it that the cement was provided by Haliburton...

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Is that a fact or just a rumor?

So many people hate Halliburton - me included.

[Merchant Marine]

8. Lookin' more like a fact now...

The scrutiny on cementing will focus attention on Halliburton Co., the oilfield-services firm that was handling the cementing process on the rig, which burned and sank last week. The disaster, which killed 11, has left a gusher of oil streaming into the Gulf from a mile under the surface.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572504575214593564769072.html

According to Transocean Ltd., the operator of the drilling rig, Halliburton had finished cementing the 18,000-foot well shortly before the explosion. Houston-based Halliburton is the largest company in the global cementing business, which accounted for $1.7 billion, or about 11%, of the company's revenue in 2009, according to consultant Spears & Associates.

Growing worries about potential lawsuits and other costs of the oil spill in the wake of its rapid spread led investors to clobber stocks of companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon well Thursday.

Halliburton fell 5.3% to $31.60 and Cameron International Corp., which built the blowout-prevention equipment that didn't stop the explosion, dropped 13% to $38.70, both at 4 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.

"The initial likely cause of gas coming to the surface had something to do with the cement," said Robert MacKenzie, managing director of energy and natural resources at FBR Capital Markets and a former cementing engineer in the oil industry.

Several other drilling experts agreed, though they cautioned that the investigation into what went wrong at the Deepwater Horizon site is still in its preliminary stages.

The problem could have been a faulty cement plug at the bottom of the well, he said. Another possibility would be that cement between the pipe and well walls didn't harden properly and allowed gas to pass through it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. I don't know what that means.

Halliburton's shoddy cement work caused a gas leak that caused the explosion.

I'm just kind of picking up pieces here.

[Merchant Marine]

9. When a gas bubble comes from 5,000 feet to 0 feet, it expands.

A fist sized ball of gas will end up bigger than your house.

And when that expansion is constricted by a pipe, it gets high-pressure and energetic.

The root cause of this disaster is whatever allowed petroleum gas into the drill pipe. That cause is still unknown though.

[LakeSamish706]

5. Read this OP!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8245775

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Thank you.

Looks like it might really be Halliburton. Wouldn't you know.

How much damage can one company do? Plenty if its Halliburton.

[LakeSamish706]

7. Yep, they seem to have there hand into everything that goes bad. n/t

[damntexdem]

10. Aren't these the major suspects:

1. Obama,
2. North Korean torpedo,
3. tree huggers, or
4. rogue whales?

;-)

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Yes. You really have to watch out for those pesky rogue whales. n/t

[Brother Buzz]

12. You forgot the ethanol lobbyists

[zappaman]

13. the evil cabal known as

BUSHCO!