Posted on 05/27/2010 12:05:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
British Petroleum and the federal government are both claiming victory today after an experimental process to stop the flow of oil from a blowout in the Gulf appears to have succeeded. The “top kill” process dumped mud into the broken pipe, effectively snuffing out the spewing of thousands of barrels of oil (via Instapundit):
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, Adm. Thad Allen, said Thursday morning.
The so-called “top kill” effort, launched Wednesday afternoon by industry and government engineers in Houston, has pumped enough drilling fluid to block all oil and gas from the well, Allen said. The pressure from the well is very low, but persistent, he said.
Once engineers have reduced the well pressure to zero, they will begin to pump cement into the hole to entomb the well. To help that effort, he said, engineers are also pumping some debris into the blowout preventer at the top of the well.
That’s pretty good timing for today’s presser, but undeniably just great news altogether. It verifies a more or less speculative solution that apparently was the last guess at stopping the oil. “Top kill” had worked at much shallower depths in the past, but so had the bell cap process, too, which turned out to be unsuitable for 5,000 feet.
However, the trouble may not yet be past. The ship pumping the mud has run out of material; a second ship is on the way. The shell of mud may still blow open from the upward pressure, but that could be resolved by more applications of “top kill.”
Now all that is left is the cleanup — and that will take much, much longer than plugging the leak did. Expect this to drag on for months and perhaps years.
On the only video I’ve seen today, I thought the escaping plumes looks wider. But has there been any official word that there was some sort of further rupture? There don’t seem to be as many live video sites today.
Lol, who knows? I just haven't seen much of anything new today (haven't looked very much), but the escaping plumes do look a little wider (which might or might not mean anything).
I think I did hear it'd be up to two more days before they could say if this effort is working successfully. I guess patience is in order until something new comes along, preferably from many different news outlets.
I was not thinking of the Mississippi flow, I was thinking of the tidal flow, high and low tides. Also there was a report today that constructing these berms could take a number of months, so will not solve anything immediate.
>> I’ll tell you what, just sit there with your thumb in your mouth and I’ll post back to you when the engineers say the well is capped.....fair enough?
We’re still waiting, “dufuss”.
Hehehehehe.
Cheers
Let me spell this out so even a total dumbass like yourself can understand. I'll let you know when the leak is capped.......sit there with your thumb in your mouth. Sound familiar, you pompass, arrogant little brain dead fool?
I'll let you know when the leak is capped......dumbass.
Here stupid is a reminder of how bad your debating skills are.....
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Breaking: “Top kill” worked !! (BP Engineers succeed in stopping oil flow in Gulf of Mexico)
Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:39:49 PM · 129 of 188
ScreamingFist to Will88
My statements, which are entirely correct, have been that we have no new information since this morning, and that success has not been declared by those in a position to judge the success or failure.
Yes dufuss, I said that way back in post 52, handed you links and information as to why it isn’t done yet and you still seem to have a comprehension problem. I’ll tell you what, just sit there with your thumb in your mouth and I’ll post back to you when the engineers say the well is capped.....fair enough?
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Hey duffuss, try reading the thread instead of titillating yourself with your roommate.....
Breaking: “Top kill” worked !! (BP Engineers succeed in stopping oil flow in Gulf of Mexico)
Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:39:49 PM · 129 of 188
ScreamingFist to Will88
My statements, which are entirely correct, have been that we have no new information since this morning, and that success has not been declared by those in a position to judge the success or failure.
Yes dufuss, I said that way back in post 52, handed you links and information as to why it isn’t done yet and you still seem to have a comprehension problem. I’ll tell you what, just sit there with your thumb in your mouth and I’ll post back to you when the engineers say the well is capped.....fair enough?
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You’re an idiot. You don’t even know what your were, or weren’t responding to. Stop wasting time and bandwidth.
>> You’re an idiot.
Yes, it’s pretty obvious that Screaming Fist needs help. Of many sorts.
I thought about the “abuse” button, but I think I’ll simply use my own internal “ignore” mechanism. She is not worth the time of day.
FRegards
And it is obvious that Nervous Tick doesn’t have the common courtesy to ping those FReepers she disagrees with.....typical troll tactics.
Since English is apparently your second language......I’ll say it again. I’ll let you know when the well is capped......now run along and read the NYT........
You can also let me know who hits the most home runs in the major leagues this year, and that will be no more irrelevant to what I've posted here than all the other nonsense you've attached to my comments.
LOL! I told you I would let you know when the engineers say the well is capped.....all the rest of your sputtering is you trying to verify it from your favorite source.....the NYT....hows that working out....?
What you can't figure out is, my comments were about the fact this entire thread was based on old, erroneous information that had been out around 8:00 am that morning, and recycled in this thread as if new and an indication of success, which it was not. I never said the top kill was successful, unsuccessful or anything else.
So keep on acting like your're providing great wisdom to the world, while what you're really doing is showing how incapable you are of controlling your ego and realizing that your remarks here are really irrelevant and add nothing to the discussion, a discussion that was based on faulty assumptions to begin with.
LOL! Apparently, you are one of the complete morons that cant understand that others might have more knowledge than yourself. Let me know about oil rigs when you spend 16 hours a day on a Swabbing Rig.......I told you way back in post 52 that the job is un-finished. You chose to call me a moron, because you couldn't find something in the MSM to back up my claims. go screw yourself. FR used to be about sharing knowledge, now I have to justify my existence to dumbasses that never spent a day in the sun.....
Lol, and why were you telling me that in the first place?????
That what you can't figure out. There was never any reason for you top tell me that. I never said it had succeeded or failed, or would succeed or would not succeed. I discussed the validity of the headline and the information in the old links which had already been discussed earlier that day.
You have a reading comprehension problem. But, why not go tell the same thing to the next person you meet on the street, then you can brag on yourself even more.
I'm leaving you to your delusions and ego problems.
Really? Ill let you know when the well is capped......who has the comprehension problem?
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