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BP announced Saturday that its 'top kill' effort to stop the oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico has failed.
After three days in which BP said it pumped more than 30,000 barrels of drilling lubricant known as mud into the runaway wells blowout preventer, BP engineers determined it was time to try something else, BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles said.
He said the decision was made in consultation with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Energy Secrtary Steven Chu, a Nobel prize winner in physics.
BP's next option involves cutting off the failed, leaking riser at the top of the blowout preventer to get a clean-cut surface on the pipe. Then the company will install a cap with a sealing grommet that would be connected to a new riser from the Discoverer Enterprise drillship, with the hopes of capturing most of the oil and gas flowing from the well.
Engineers had hoped the mud pumped into the blowout preventer under the top kill method iwould accumulate and prevent the crude oil and gas from continuing to flow.
BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak
Question: Why isn't a demolition crew being sent in to seal the leak the old fashioned way? Does that not work with underwater drilling?
Just asking.
This whole situation including the government's handling of it is sickening.
BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak
Question: Why isn't a demolition crew being sent in to seal the leak the old fashioned way? Does that not work with underwater drilling?
Just asking.
This whole situation including the government's handling of it is sickening.
It is, BP has been testing it.And why isn't the device Kevin Costner is promoting that has proven to be successful at removing the oil from the water not even being heard by BP or the administration?
BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak
Question: Why isn't a demolition crew being sent in to seal the leak the old fashioned way? Does that not work with underwater drilling?
Just asking.
This whole situation including the government's handling of it is sickening.
The pressure down there is probably too immense to send actual people down to work on it. It's supposed to be several thousand pounds PSI. In fact, I heard that some of the machines being sent down there have windows that are 9 inches thick of tempered glass, and that anything less would cause them to pretty much immediately shatter.
BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak
Question: Why isn't a demolition crew being sent in to seal the leak the old fashioned way? Does that not work with underwater drilling?
Just plug the damn hole.
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Easier said than done. You do realize that the pressure of the hydrocarbons coming out of that well is thousands of pounds per square inch, don't you?
Oh, my.
It looks like I may spend my vacation cleaning tar off the beach, rather than lounging on it as planned.
...or go somewhere else for a vacation....Northrend is lovly this time of year...
Just plug the damn hole.
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Now it's time they used my plan.
Plug the hole with BP Executives.
And you can thank the beloved environmentalists for pushing us out into the middle of freaking nowhere to have to drill. If this were on land or in shallow water, this would have been capped by Day 2.
And you can thank the beloved environmentalists for pushing us out into the middle of freaking nowhere to have to drill. If this were on land or in shallow water, this would have been capped by Day 2.
And you can thank the beloved environmentalists for pushing us out into the middle of freaking nowhere to have to drill. If this were on land or in shallow water, this would have been capped by Day 2.
How so?
Please, explain the logic of that statement. Be sure to include links that back up the 'thought process' you used to reach that conclusion.
And while you're at it, why don't you expose how you work for the oil industry. At least you should, because that's a line that would come straight from their mouths.
Poor oil industry always having to put up with people who don't like it when they spill billions of gallons of oil, kill off endangered species, ruin fishing and shrimping industries, destroy tourism...
And all because they wanted to save $500,000 on preventative measures and our lazy-ass MMA regulators let them.
BP announces 'top kill' has failed to stop Gulf oil leak
Question: Why isn't a demolition crew being sent in to seal the leak the old fashioned way? Does that not work with underwater drilling?
Just asking.
This whole situation including the government's handling of it is sickening.
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