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illconsidered | June 24, 2010I am not an expert in oil field engineering. But I can smell bullshit. So I am sad to confess that at this moment I am putting more faith in an anonymous poster at the Oil Drum whom I have never heard of before than I am in any mainstream reporting I have come across.
His lengthy and compelling comment is here. What he says makes sense to my untrained ears and at the very least the "supplementary material" he links to is very informative.
The synopsis goes something like this (from memory):
the well is damaged below the sea floor
erosion from oil and gas flowing outside the well casing…