Worse, their two wells they’re drilling now to pump it out are going into the same fragmented shaft.
The irony of Obama going down because of an environmental catastrophe humors me to no end. Hung on his own petard.
The purpose is to divert flow from the fragmented shaft to the new shafts. Suppose they only can tap 66% of the flow, its still a significant improvement.
The releif wells are not for ‘pumping oil out’ - they are for plugging the well with heavy mud and then concrete.