“One of the goals potentially of the MWCC group is to see how we can work together with the Helix group to try to accommodate solutions for all of the Gulf of Mexico,” Dupree (BP) said.
Helix and Marine Well Containment Company may work together
April 21, 2011 by offshoreenergy
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Somewhere “in the news” during the Macondo incident there was a report that the Canadian gov’t requires a relief well to be drilled simultaneously with the production well. Is this true?
No. This type of requirement has been discussed, but never seriously considered.
Drilling hundreds of unnecessary wells is not in the best interest of safety or the environment. Keep in mind that, at least since 1971, a relief well has not been required to halt the flow from any drilling blowout in US (Federal) offshore waters. This includes Macondo, which was controlled with the installation of a capping stack, and killed by pumping mud and cement from the surface.