Daily News
Project Acronym: HSDP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5027
ins.: 2003-06-13 02:00, 22 yrs ago

Category:
Hawaii_

hawaii: 2003-06-13
I guess I owe everyone an apology for not posting ...

I guess I owe everyone an apology for not posting an update for two weeks - and it's been a tough two weeks. The cementing that we did in the shallower intervals of the hole seems to have held pretty well but, as we continued opening hole toward 9000', we encountered several more formations that were determined to flow on us. We were seeing pressures - when we shut everything in - of more than 10 bar even with heavy mud in the hole. We proceeded to do additional cementing jobs in three zones - two at depth and a shallower one that we had missed earlier - and had the flow under control as we drilled out the plugs. ...
