BP Pumped Unusual Chemicals (Explosive Mixture?) Into Well Before Explosion

[Optimus]

BP pumped an unusual mixture of chemicals that was never done before into the well before it exploded.

Would this unusual mixture of chemicals that was never done before cause an explosive reaction? What was these chemicals that they mixed together? If the mixture was explosive this may be the smoking gun that proves the explosion was a false flag!


Contractor: BP Pumped Unusual Chemicals Into Well Before Explosion
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Rachel Slajda | July 20, 2010, 10:14AM


An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig

A contractor working on the Deepwater Horizon when it exploded testified yesterday that the day before the explosion, BP had pumped an unusual chemical mixture into the well -- a mixture that later rained down on the rig like "snot."

Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for M-I Swaco, told the panel investigating the causes of the explosion that BP decided to mix two chemicals the company had a surplus of -- two chemicals that aren't usually mixed -- and pump them into the well to flush out the drilling mud.

"It's not something we've ever done before," he said.

Lindner said BP wanted to use 400 barrels of the mixture, more than twice the amount of fluid usually used, because the company had hundreds of barrels of the chemicals and wanted to get rid of them.

From the Washington Post:

    By first flushing it into the well, the company could take advantage of an exemption in an environmental law that otherwise would have prohibited it from discharging the hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico, Lindner said.

Lindner testified that he had concerns, even conducting his own impromptu experiment by mixing small amounts of the chemicals in the hours before the explosion.

He observed a dense grey liquid, similar to the fluid that rained down on the rig the next day -- a fluid the rig engineer described as "snot."

[Optimus]

Before rig explosion, BP pumped chemical mixture into well, contractor says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/20/AR2010072002038.html
By David S. Hilzenrath
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 20, 2010; 9:47 AM

KENNER, LA. -- In the hours before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, BP pumped into the well an extraordinarily large quantity of an unusual chemical mixture, a contractor on the rig testified Monday.

The injection of the dense, gray fluid was meant to flush drilling mud from the hole, according to the testimony before a government panel investigating the April 20 accident. But the more than 400 barrels used were roughly double the usual quantity, said Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for contractor MI-Swaco.

BP had hundreds of barrels of the two chemicals on hand and needed to dispose of the material, Lindner testified. By first flushing it into the well, the company could take advantage of an exemption in an environmental law that otherwise would have prohibited it from discharging the hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico, Lindner said.

The procedure mixed two substances. "It's not something we've ever done before," Lindner said.

A BP specialist said using the two substances together would be okay. Nonetheless, the night before the rig exploded, Lindner was busy conducting an improvised chemistry experiment to double-check. He mixed a gallon of one of the substances with a gallon of the other and observed their reaction.

When the well became a gusher on April 20, a fluid that fit the general description of the mixture rained down on the rig.

Stephen Bertone, chief engineer on the rig, said in testimony earlier in the day that part of the rig was covered in an inch or more of material that he said resembled "snot."

Ronnie Penton, an attorney for one of the rig workers, said in an interview after the hearing that the double-sized dose of spacer fluid, also known as a "pill," skewed a crucial test of pressure in the well just hours before the blowout. Based on the test, BP concluded it was safe to continue displacing the heavy mud from the well in favor of much lighter sea water.
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"That large pill skewed the testing," Penton said.

The alleged departure from standard practice came despite a series of complications in the attempt to complete work on the well.

[Optimus]

What were these chemicals, and what was the reaction that Lindner observed in his experiment?

[donnay]

What were these chemicals, and what was the reaction that Lindner observed in his experiment?

Here is a list of the chemicals they use for drilling oil and gas wells:

1. Bentonite API and Bentonite Extender
2. Caustic Soda Flakes
3. Soda Ash
4. CMC-HV and CMC LV
5. PAC -R an dPAC LV
6. Lubricants
7. Biocide
8. Citric Acid
9. Pipelax,
10. LCMI-- Mica
11. Calcium Chloride
12. SOLTEX
13. Sodium Bio carbonate
14. Brine Defoamer
15. Polysal
16. Poly Plus
17. Lubricants
18. Mud Defoamer
19. Corrision Inhibitors
20. Mud Detergent
21. Hole Coat Or Starch Polymer
22. XCD or Xantham Polymer
23. BARITE

[charrington]

KENNER, LA. -- In the hours before the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, BP pumped into the well an extraordinarily large quantity of an unusual chemical mixture, a contractor on the rig testified Monday.

The injection of the dense, gray fluid was meant to flush drilling mud from the hole, according to the testimony before a government panel investigating the April 20 accident. But the more than 400 barrels used were roughly double the usual quantity, said Leo Lindner, a drilling fluid specialist for contractor MI-Swaco.

BP had hundreds of barrels of the two chemicals on hand and needed to dispose of the material, Lindner testified. By first flushing it into the well, the company could take advantage of an exemption in an environmental law that otherwise would have prohibited it from discharging the hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico, Lindner said.

The procedure mixed two substances. "It's not something we've ever done before," Lindner said.

A BP specialist said using the two substances together would be okay. Nonetheless, the night before the rig exploded, Lindner was busy conducting an improvised chemistry experiment to double-check. He mixed a gallon of one of the substances with a gallon of the other and observed their reaction.

When the well became a gusher on April 20, a fluid that fit the general description of the mixture rained down on the rig.

Stephen Bertone, chief engineer on the rig, said in testimony earlier in the day that part of the rig was covered in an inch or more of material that he said resembled "snot."

Ronnie Penton, an attorney for one of the rig workers, said in an interview after the hearing that the double-sized dose of spacer fluid, also known as a "pill," skewed a crucial test of pressure in the well just hours before the blowout. Based on the test, BP concluded it was safe to continue displacing the heavy mud from the well in favor of much lighter sea water.

"That large pill skewed the testing," Penton said.

The alleged departure from standard practice came despite a series of complications in the attempt to complete work on the well.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/20/AR2010072002038.html

[citizenx]

"It's snot"

"Oh no, it's not."

[citizenx]

That certainly explains the whole putting sea water into the well thing -- also, never been done before.  This is starting to make sense.  They diluted this crap a little (what's the point?) before dumping it down the well. 

F%#kers!