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'Top kill' effort succeeds in blocking oil leak, Coast Guard admiral says
latimes ^ | 5 27 10

Posted on 05/27/2010 5:53:57 AM PDT by dennisw

Edited on 05/27/2010 6:12:15 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Reporting from Houma, La. Engineers have succeeded in stopping the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government's top oil spill commander, U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; deepwaterhorizon; louisiana; oilspill; topkill
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To: AFPhys

Thanks...didn’t know all that was involved plus 100,000 barrels of mud ready to go on board a ship. There was/is always a risk this top kill would make it worse. I’m sure everyone had their fingers crossed.


181 posted on 05/27/2010 7:27:18 AM PDT by dennisw (History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
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To: Barb4Bush; All
"If Obama’s theory is stop the leak than worry about how to clean it up on the oil spill. I wonder why he can’t adopt the same theory on immigration."

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182 posted on 05/27/2010 7:27:35 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Shoot - by the way,

BP was very upfront in their warnings that the tophats, etc, did not have a great chance of working. It isn’t that they couldn’t stand the temperatures, either - but the fact that oil and gas behaves very differently this far under the ocean. They made the attempts anyway though they realized they were likely to fail - in effect doing something that they thought was a waste of money - while they continued working on other avenues more likely to be effective. Note I said WHILE they were working.

As we speak now, in fact, they are also drilling “relief wells” ... not able to be completed for months yet - because that is widely recognized as the most likely procedure to be effective. They are doing that even though it is by far and away the most costly thing to do.

BP was not putting all their eggs in this topkill effort, only giving it a 2/3 chance of working (I thought that optimistic).

I suspect that they have at least a dozen other projects and avenues of attack underway right now. Hopefully a week or so from now all of those can be shut down and phased out and the resource being put into those can be re-allocated.


183 posted on 05/27/2010 7:30:29 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: ScreamingFist

//All in all, absolutely stunning engineering in record breaking time//

Yes that has to be acknowledged, and at 5,000’ depth with ROV’s. They might as well be doing it on Venus, well maybe thats a stretch but the metaphor works for me.


184 posted on 05/27/2010 7:31:01 AM PDT by valkyry1
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To: FootBall

Who gives a rat’s ass how it makes Obama look? Hopefully the leak is plugged and we can start cleaning this mess up because that is what is good for America and the Gulf Coast. Obama is screwing up on so many levels, but we don’t need to cheer on American misery for political points.

Obama is screwing up on so many levels on his own.


185 posted on 05/27/2010 7:31:59 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: biff

>>Jindal should have taken control and done what was needed for La. Spread hay, sawdust, hell, gone out and stolen some booms and skimmers. The hell with EPA and permits, do what needs to be done and take the consequences later. He has a whole damn navy of privateers that would gladly have volunteered.<<

Aaaaah, the naivete, it stuns.


186 posted on 05/27/2010 7:32:33 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: ZX12R
"Can you post a link to where this information has been given, or is being given?"

No, but analysis of drilling mud as it comes out is standard practice. That's how the companies tell they've hit a "pay zone" while drilling. Heck, they can probably tell just by looking at the rate of natural gas bubbles forming as the oil/gas/mud/water stream is pumped out. No gas bubbles=no well flow.

187 posted on 05/27/2010 7:33:56 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I am glad you appreciated my #155.

That is what I want to say to Dear Leader and all his minions.

I wish they would go out and rebuild their cars and a freezer unit instead of saying to the wind “stop the damn leak”

People have no concept of reality any more, it seems.


188 posted on 05/27/2010 7:34:13 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Praying for our troops, our citizens, that the Bible and Freedom become basis of the US law again))
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To: cripplecreek

Great idea. BP should have live underwater cams around all their wells showing local aquativ life cavorting joyfully. (Some CGI may be required.)


O give me a home
fom Biloxi to Nome
Where the mermaids and porpoises play.
Where never is heard
A discouraging word
And the water’s not cloudy all day.


189 posted on 05/27/2010 7:35:31 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: valkyry1

I hope they can get permission to drill another well, or six, into that monster reservoir.


190 posted on 05/27/2010 7:36:40 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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To: CapedConservative

Mud is not oil. You’re seeing mud.

Please check HoustonCurmudgeon’s posts on this thread for a great explanation.


191 posted on 05/27/2010 7:37:52 AM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: Wonder Warthog
No, but analysis of drilling mud as it comes out is standard practice. That's how the companies tell they've hit a "pay zone" while drilling. Heck, they can probably tell just by looking at the rate of natural gas bubbles forming as the oil/gas/mud/water stream is pumped out. No gas bubbles=no well flow.

So, you're saying that BP has not said a word about the lack of gas and oil in that line that your claiming proves it stopped the leak?
192 posted on 05/27/2010 7:37:53 AM PDT by ZX12R
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To: HoustonCurmudgeon

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37363106/ns/gulf_oil_spill

Another rig workers says BP short cut.

Please ping everyone else, as I am heading out the door.


193 posted on 05/27/2010 7:37:55 AM PDT by razorback-bert (Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
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To: dennisw

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703709804575201940233616462.html?ru=yahoo&mod=yahoo_hs


194 posted on 05/27/2010 7:39:36 AM PDT by Cool Guy
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To: dennisw
The president stepped in and got the job done!!!!

He gave "Big Oil" a chance to solve the problem but their innepness and greed led only to more polluted seas.

If it wasn't for Obama we would still be seeing the death of the oceans of the world. Good job Mr. President, a job well done!!

If you doubt any of the above statements, just wait a few minutes and witness the coming spin by the media and the rewriting of the events of the past month.

Look for a huge bounce in popularity in the poll numbers.

195 posted on 05/27/2010 7:40:03 AM PDT by R_Kangel (`.`)
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To: ZX12R

The best (unbiased, very knowledge based) source for info on the Deepwater Rig incident is here: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6505


196 posted on 05/27/2010 7:40:50 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
and now oil threatens the coastlines.

As planned.

How else would 0bama get the political backing to ban US off shore oil drilling?

[While allowing China, Cuba, Mexico, and ??? to continue to drill on our continental shelf]

197 posted on 05/27/2010 7:42:50 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 490 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: dennisw

In before “why didn’t they try that first?”!


198 posted on 05/27/2010 7:43:28 AM PDT by Doohickey (I try to take my days one at a time, but occasionally several days attack me at once.)
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To: AFPhys
Here is a picture of the setup they had to build to attempt this TOP KILL.

Source: THE OIL DRUM

199 posted on 05/27/2010 7:43:35 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The Last Boy Scout)
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To: valkyry1

No. Gas turbines left over from the Rose law firm and Clinton White House shredders.


200 posted on 05/27/2010 7:43:43 AM PDT by Erasmus (Looks like we're between a lithic outcropping and a region of low compressibility.)
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