ERHC Energy Inc (ERHE)

[kownski]

Umbra,

This is what I told Strass, a few days ago.

Look for Halliburton to pick up the tab on this one, if they were the cementers. There is no way that oil and gas from that zone could get into the pipe in a cased and cemented hole, unless they parted or split the casing while cementing or over displaced the cement by a lot and the cement retainer didn't hold. (The last not likely) If they did this, they knew it and tried to cover it up.

IMO, the driller had no idea it was blowing out until it was too late. They were pumping salt water into the casing to displace the drilling mud, so they were gaining mud real fast in their pits. And that's the first indication of a blowout. Very bad.

John