AP: BP Plug/Top Kill Has Failed

AP | 5-29-10

[My Favorite Headache]

AP news break via ABC News Radio that the top kill plug has failed and has not worked. Link to follow...

[caper gal 1]

According to BP, it will take seven years for the oil to run out if nothing is done.

[krogers58]

As to freezing the BOP ... how could you hope to do that? It’s pretty cold there anyway, and this causes problems with clathrate formation when they try to capture the outflow.

I meant to say freezing the pipe that is leaking, as one would hope that if the viscosity of the oil could be increased, there would be more friction, and thus, less could escape from the leaking pipe. As far as pumping in seawater, it appeared to me when they were pumping in the mud, that much, if not all of the mud escaped, so I thought if they were able to inject seawater in place of mud, it might displace some of the oil that was leaking through the holes.

[1000 silverlings]

What if the phone rings at 3 AM....

Hillary will take it, roll over and punch her girlfriend who'll call old Bill and he'll take the blame, for another 10 million dollars

[dennisw]

We should have drilled down 7000ft quick and dirty and nuked it weeks ago if the rock down there is the right kind. I need a rock report. The oil leak from hell..... Next step is to fit something on top with a special grommet that will have a pipe sending the crude right to the top

[proudofthesouth]

I agree that he is insane. Narcissism is a mental illness.

But lately I've begun to wonder if Zero isn't trying to intentionally hurry towards getting his 72 homosexual virgins sooner than a normal life span.......

[Last Dakotan]

I’ve got reservations in Gulf Shores at the end of July. Still hanging on.

June for me...

[Wolfstar]

We may never know for certain, but I will always wonder if this was due to sabotage. Simply because it could have been an accident does not mean it definitely was an accident. Just sayin...

[hal ogen]

But...but...but nobama SAID! nobama is a genius and knows all. Just wait...I’m sure he will fix it and save us. He is such a leader. nobama...nobama...nobama..

[MHGinTN]

No, there has been no 24 or 36 inch pipe lowered over the actual exit point from the seabed.

[proudofthesouth]

I’m beginning to think that whenever his handlers have no instructions for him and he has no ideas of his own, he either shoots hoops or golfs.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a Winner! I would also add to this that whenever his TelePrompter is broken as well.

[MHGinTN]

As the relief pipes are lowered over the leaking well, the necessary valves and taps are already in place to regulate flow ...

[ransomnote]

“Lower that ocean, Mr. President. Lower that ocean by 5000 feet so you can walk on the ocean’s surface, dry, and just plug that hole like you’d turn off a sink’s water.”

That’s a direct quote from the website of blogger Ace of Spades. I can’t post a link because the last time I did it was pulled. Probably for content as some links are NSFW and the blogger sometimes employs coarse language.

[xzins]

You were right.

[not2worry]

Ditto!

And I also heard O say it was plugged on Thursday at his presser. Even though BP had stopped the procedure BEFORE his press conference which I think meant it wasn’t working when Obama made his statement!

This guys got more spin cycles than my dryer.

[proudofthesouth]

Isn't there a physicist that had a solution to this but because he isn't PC and a supporter of Zero he was fired?

[autumnraine]

“This may have been asked and answered on other threads, but are there other countries capable of handling this situation?”

I’ve read that Russia had a very simliar situation. It didn’t get near this bad. Of course they didn’t have a leader who was more interested in being interviewed by a sports caster either.

They nuked it. They were laughing at us way back on May 4 for attempting to put a dome on it.

http://trueslant.com/juliaioffe/2010/05/04/nuke-that-slick/

Komsomoloskaya Pravda, the best-selling Russian daily, reports that in Soviet times such leaks were plugged with controlled nuclear blasts underground. The idea is simple, KP writes: “the underground explosion moves the rock, presses on it, and, in essence, squeezes the well’s channel.”

Yes! It’s so simple, in fact, that the Soviet Union, a major oil exporter, used this method five times to deal with petrocalamities. The first happened in Uzbekistan, on September 30, 1966 with a blast 1.5 times the strength of the Hiroshima bomb and at a depth of 1.5 kilometers. KP also notes that subterranean nuclear blasts were used as much as 169 times in the Soviet Union to accomplish fairly mundane tasks like creating underground storage spaces for gas or building canals.

[small voice in the wilderness]

Please don’t say sabotage. They are desperately groping for anything to save their sorry butts. Especially if the scenario included, say, workers who listened to Glenn Beck, you know, loose cannons who spoke hatred towards O. Someone of the Timothy McVeigh strand, who would be willing to destroy in order to destroy. Nothing a little marshall law couldn’t restore. Just a snippet here, a rumor there, and Rahm Emanuel to whisper conspiracy theories in the ears of the media.

[hoagy62]

Folks...I hate to say it, but it’s time we took a page from the Russians.

Mr. President, no matter what the enviro-whackos say, no matter what anyone says, you MUST authorize the use of a small-yield NUCLEAR BOMB and SEAL it shut. You are OUT of options.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

OBAMA DITHERED!

PELICANS WITHERED!

[ColdOne]

can’t Bush just turn on his earthquake machine and shut this thing off? /s LOL!!!!!!!!!!