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Jack, Sounds like you have a heck of a lot more knowledge on that well than you say. Can't blame you. A close relative used to work for the company that deploys the remotes working on the well. I got to see the video of the well head the night the rig sank. This relative said I was probably about #50 to see the video.
If chunks of rubber were coming up in the returns, the hydril must not have released during a test. The need to rework the entire system. Drilling without a working BOP stack is like Russian roulette with all holes loaded and a hair trigger. I am sure they knew they were getting methane hydrate kicks and no one knew exactly how big a problem it was going to be to produce that stuff. USGS (head of MMS) had to know what was causing the problem, and yes!, someones head should roll for not shutting down the rig if the BOP stack wasn't functional.
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