Operators needing to kill a blowout can increase the relief well pumping capacity by placing an RWIS between the relief wellhead and the BOP to inject kill fluids (Fig. 1). Photo from Trendsetter ...

Relief-well drilling called imperative. August 14, 2010. By Tom Breen. ... "The relief well will be finished," said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen. "We will kill the well." ...

John Wright's phone rang at 7 a.m. on April 21. It was a former colleague asking if he'd heard that a rig was on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. That morning, as the Coast Guard searched for 11 men ...

Once cleaned out, BP can finish cementing the pipe into the relief well and move forward with a "static kill" next week, he said. Reporting by Kristen Hays. editing by Anthony Boadle ...

Having dodged the threat of another tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is resuming operations to continue drilling the relief well that will allow it to doubly kill its now tamed Macondo oil ...

A rig that is drilling a relief well to plug BP's oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico may be in position to resume operations early this week after crews worked Sunday to reconnect equipment following ...

The weather has calmed, and the company is moving forward with two plans to kill the well. The first one, known as a "static kill," should start on Aug. 2, Allen said. In that procedure, the ...

BP PLC crews drilling the first relief well to the Macondo well tentatively planned to start trying to kill the flow of oil and gas inside Macondo around Aug. 7-9 regardless of the success of a ...

BP could begin taking the final steps to try to kill its blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico as soon as next week, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Monday. Allen gave the most specific ...

Feds: Relief drilling needed to kill BP's well. TOM BREEN. ASSOCIATED PRESS. An oily brown stain continues to ride in on the tide in Orange Beach, Ala., Sunday, July 18, 2010.

The government and BP have pushed back to mid-September the completion of a relief well that will permanently kill the blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said ...

BP must complete its relief well after leaking was found from an earlier try to kill its rogue Gulf of Mexico well. The use of a relief well is the energy industry's textbook method for killing an ...