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There seems to be a large difference in what GDY and shareholders see the term "Fully Informed" to imply these days gattiweb.
My take on the situation is this. The suspension plug "did not set properly" inferred that having lowered this plug to the desired depth in the well it did not expand and 'jam' itself in the bore casing correctly where it was required to form a seal to prevent the high pressure hot waters in the fractured granites from rising up the well.

Thus permitting the operators to install equipment for controlling this pressurised water for future testing and procedures while still being able to access the well etc.

Kashga explained how the plug concerned is an expanding mechancal device with some large rubber sealing rings around it that they would have had some means to screw it thus expanding it until it was very tightly fixed in the bore.

OK. This didn't happen as it should but apparently it became disengaged from the drill pipe and the 'operating attatachment' which would have been on the end of the pipe.

It has not necessarilly dropped anywhere at that stage but was not properly tightened and 'set' either.
At this point you would like to hook on, pull it up and start again but at last report they had been unable to do this.
The great worry would be that in trying to snag the plug you might instead jiggle it and it may move into a position where it could start falling. Ahhhh! We don't want that. So an approach to try and avoid that possibility would be good.

Just where is the plug anyway? ie. How deep? - Secret-.

My guess is, pretty deep, very likely in the 9-5/8" section somewhere.
As we know the well has four or five stages of reducing diameters as it gets deeper. From a big 18-5/8" internal dia. at the top, down to 585m depth, then 13-3/8" on down to 2,264m, then 9-5/8" way on down to 4,100m and finally the 8-1/2" uncased hole section through the granite lined with a perforated steel pipe right to the bottom at 4,221m.

Whichever section the plug was being set in it would most likely be too large to get past the end of that particular section and into the next smaller one.

So where was it being set? - As the pressures involved are very high the smaller the section you can use the more appealing from the point of -:
a. The Total force, (pressure x area), that the plug must
restrain or hold against.
b.The cheaper cost of a smaller plug would also
a factor.

It is quite likely the plug just 'twisted' out of it's correct alignment during tightening and dissconected itself from the 'adaptor thingy' that would be on the end of the drill pipe. This could mean it was still there, quite tight, in little danger of dropping but not sealing properly either.
Now you would be faced with having to get hold of it and untighten it so it could be lifted back up, assuming the expanding mechanism is not actually broken. All the while battling against the surge of the pressurised hot water.

Its a tricky situation to deal with and I can well imagine not a time one feels like saying, "Well, don't worry
about it for a while guys. I'd best go dash off a story to the shareholders first.

Ok. the share holders have held their breath for a week and the operators have had time to think and decide a course of action and make a start.

Like carbonman and gattiweb and hundreds of others I would like to hear a detailed story by today, or Tuesday even which has achieved some special significance for communications, if one more day is less stressful.


geojac.