Deposition Testimony of: Robert Bodek - Broadcast Interactive Media

20 that your mud weight was heavier than the
21 pore pressures, you all fractured the
22 formation and lost returns, correct?
23 A. Yes, sir. With our reservoir
24 coming in so grossly underpressured
25 compared to our estimates, our planned mud
00298:01 weight did, in fact, fracture the
02 reservoir.
03 Q. And this fractured reservoir was
04 at total depth, right?
05 A. Yes, sir. We had to drill
06 through the reservoir before we could
07 employ the downhole instrumentation to take
08 the pore pressure.
09 Q. In terms of where Halliburton's
10 cement job was ultimately placed, you had
11 them do a cement job into a formation that
12 you knew you had fractured?
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00298:15 Q. True?
16 A. I don't -- I don't know.
17 that's -- that's not in my area of
18 expertise.
19 Q. Let's put it this way. At the
20 TD or total depth, you had an understanding
21 before anybody ever started the cement job
22 that that formation had been fractured,
23 right?
24 A. I don't know where we were
25 losing. I don't know where it was being
00299:01 fractured. We were -- we were having
02 losses. You can't debate that. It's not
03 always easy to tell where you're incurring
04 your losses.
05 Q. If mud can be lost into a
06 fractured formation, can Halliburton's
07 cement be lost there as well?
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00299:10 A. I do not know anything about
11 cement rheology, sir.
12 Q. In terms of your losses, can you
13 give the jury some sort of an understanding
14 of the magnitude of the losses that you had
15 seen on this well?
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00299:18 A. I really don't know the --
19 volumetrically, how -- what the degree of
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