in addition to the casing, there were also two-tasks. are you aware of that today? i am aware there would be doing-tests. i am not sure if they did one, or two, to be honest. the negative tests were successful? indication. that this point in bp s judgment, it was because it was a sealed well bore. it is safe to displace the mud with seawater. that is why we do those tests. all right. now, the next up in this process after displacing the blood of the riser, was to set the surface plug. wasn t that correct? yes. when you set that clock, that was a filler of what dimension? how long would it be? it was planned to be 300 feet long. it would have been how many feet below the line? approximately 3000. how many feet above the total vertical depth? roughly 10,000. and at some point, you said, you were asked a question about the temperature. how is the cbl run? on a wire line. how you get it down to the bottom? you read it up on the derrick. your line
this has been asked several times and i don t think we have gotten an answer yet, we all know about the e-mails from bp employees talking about the safety are pro-seed yours. brian morrell described the well as, quote, a nightmare well. how much were the drilling engineers consulted in the decision to use the single string casing? was this a bottom up decision in which the people actually connected to drilling the operation had some influence? or did it come from the top down? as i understand it, from the discussion with our investigation team and from the review of the documents, there was a discussion taking place amongst the drilli inin ining eg