The Dead Zone (or, BP and the Oil Well That Keeps on Giving)

[Tellos Athenaios]

As to the floated idea of backup/relief wells being mandatory for each (new) site: wouldn't that kind of be counter-productive? I imagine that the only reason the wells work (at first) is because of pressure from the oil/gas, so drilling relief wells would cut such pressure by more than half.

[Kadagar_AV]

As to the floated idea of backup/relief wells being mandatory for each (new) site: wouldn't that kind of be counter-productive? I imagine that the only reason the wells work (at first) is because of pressure from the oil/gas, so drilling relief wells would cut such pressure by more than half.

You don't drill the last bit, IIRC :)

You just have it on stand-by in case of, so it doesn't take months to drill, but rather days.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Ah must've missed the crucial bit. The light is firmly switched on now.