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| BP Seeks to Catch Most Oil as U.S. Exerts Spill Role |
| 2010-05-31 |
| Editing and quoting the part I want to emphasize The 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 |
| #10 "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." And just what the hell do you politicians know about oil drilling? NOTHING. ""At the end of the day, the government tells BP what to do," Browner said on NBC's "Meet the Press."" So if you didn't own this mess before, you own it NOW, a**hole. Where's Bambi? Why can't The Won™ magically stop the oil from flowing? Too busy "slowing the rise of the oceans"? Idiots, the lot of 'em. >:-( |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-31 22:17 |
| #9 Seriously, nuke it. It has worked too many times. We pay plenty for em, may as well get some payoff for it. |
| Posted by: newc 2010-05-31 21:50 |
| #8 CHINESE MIL FORUM > [Video]PROMINENT OIL INSIDER: THERE IS ANOTHER OIL LEAK, MUCH BIGGER THAN DEEPWATER AND 5-6 MILES AWAY. * ION VARIOUS > BP DOES NOT KNOW HOW MUCH OIL LIES IN UNDERSEA RESERVOIR. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-05-31 21:32 |
| #7 Don't laugh. It may come down to blasting the hole shut very, very soon. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-05-31 17:32 |
| #6 Why not use an Arclight strike? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-05-31 17:01 |
| #5 I'm sure Rantburgers will like this way of stopping the oil... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-05-31 16:59 |
| #4 This hasn't stopped the rest of the world from drilling (including the Gulf). Norway just started a new drill sight off their deep water shelf. |
| Posted by: Dale 2010-05-31 09:39 |
| #3 The cap will have to be a temporary fix, and it won't seal the leak in, but hopefully channel it to where it can be safely captured without spilling into the gulf, at least until the relief wells can be drilled into the bore and the bore plugged with cement. In the long term, any exploitation of that particular pocket of oil is going to have to involve a new undamaged wellbore separate from both the old damaged one and the relief wells. So if in the future anyone suddenly needs the oil there anyway, they're going to have to start from scratch in order to get a controllable well. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-05-31 02:41 |
| #2 Is that English? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-05-31 02:14 |
| #1 I am guessing that they want to cap the well and come back later to install another BOP in series with the one they mangled in their hurry to meet their Holy Drilling Schedule. Are they planning on this being some kind of permanent fix? Is this cap supposed to completely seal off the well? |
| Posted by: gorb 2010-05-31 00:30 |