[lexington minuteman 1775]

So who had the idea of DRILLING a well into this area?

[VOA]

So who had the idea of DRILLING a well into this area

You'd be suprised at some of the cockups some otherwise brilliant
engineers will do.

I had to force my self to sit silent during a presentation by
a major oil company as they patted themselves on the back for a
HUGE project to lift the level of a series of oil platforms in
The North Sea.

Seems they handn't anticipated that as they pumped out a gazillion cubic feet
of oil/gas...the level of the seabed (and their rigs) would lower.
And the violent waves would threaten to destroy their rigs with
those violent waves striking the underside of the main platforms.

I got to admit their retrofitting hydraulics to lift the platforms
was an tour de force...but would have cost a lot less if they'd
engineered it in from the start (just knowing there would be subsiding
of the seafloor).

[marktwain]

I think you have been watching too many Science Fiction movies. The amount of energy in the well drilling vs the amount released in the eruption is tiny. If such a small amount of energy could trigger such an event, it was on a knives edge and ready to go at any time.