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BP Seeks to Catch Most Oil as U.S. Exerts Spill Role
Editing and quoting the part I want to emphasizeThe company encountered "too much flow" and the "top kill" using 30,000 barrels of mud was abandoned in favor of placing a cap over the well, Managing Director Robert Dudley said today on CNN's "State of the Union" program. "We believe we will get a majority of the oil and gas," Dudley said. U.S. engineers, led by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, yesterday told BP of "grave concerns" about drilling mud, and the company halted the process, White House energy and climate adviser Carol Browner said on CBS's "Face the Nation" broadcast. "At the end of the day, the government tells BP what to do," Browner said on NBC's "Meet the Press." So basically the main advisors to the government effort are the politicized "scientists" who have been wanting to shut down oil drilling in this country for a long long while... and we wonder why the spill's not being contained. BP had put the chances of the top kill succeeding at 60 percent to 70 percent. The company made three attempts before giving up last night. "We failed to wrestle this beast to the ground," Dudley said on "Fox News Sunday." Containment has "no certainty" of success, he said on Fox. "The percentages are better" than forcing mud into the well, he said. Chu met BP engineers yesterday and told them "it was too dangerous" to continue forcing mud into the well, Browner said on CBS's "Face the Nation" broadcast. After the scientists met and "we told them of our very, very grave concerns," the company abandoned the process, Browner said. BP didn't provide an estimate of when the flow might be stopped with the new method. Installing the cap should take about four to seven days, and after that the company will begin installing a new blowout preventer, a series of valves designed to cut off the flow from the well, Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of BP America Inc., said yesterday. The rest of the piece is just politicans emoting. Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-31 |
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