Posted on 05/29/2010 1:13:23 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
AP news break via ABC News Radio that the top kill plug has failed and has not worked. Link to follow...
Me too! I would be very interested in seeing that!
That there is a video to download and save to a disk. Thats gonna come in mighty handy later I think. Thanks for posting it!
It would have had an impact for sure.
It’s sickening. Sickening.
To crush it shut (rock moves and pinches off pipe), we would have to drill down next to the existing pipe to stick the nuke in the proper spot. Might work, might not, but any kind of explosion near the surface will just fracture rock and pipe and make the leak worse.
Prevailing winds in the Gulf of Mexico during summer (April/May through September) are easterly, which means that this giant oil slick probably is heading toward Texas, not Alabama yet. But just one decent tropical storm into Louisiana and that changes drastically.
A situation could be created that would be much worse than the one we have now? That's what you're saying? Dems will go for it - look at their track record - ObamaCare - Immigration - financial markets - they take something with problems and turn it into a full fledged nightmare.
See my post #218
Top-kill has failed...what a perfect metaphor for the entire 0bama FAILED Experiment.
Thunderbirds are go!
Thunderbird One to Base...
BINGO! I sent that tip to BP’s tip line just this morning—crimp the riser and inject a junk shot of appropriately sized shredded rubber and straw, followed up with bentonite and ultimately cement. By restricting debris flow with a mechanical obstruction such as this, the debris would clog up the riser and keep all of it from just flowing out of the holes.
Guess I should have sent it sooner, but I thought they’d have figured that out by now.
Send in Jack Shepard to plug the hole.
Yes, he was the proximate cause, but I doubt he made the decision in a vacuum. He either had intense pressure or direct instructions.
Looks like there might be a decrease in flow from the well. Anyone else seeing this?
Yep, this ain’t good for the people, oil companies or Hussein. It’s got mess written all over it.
I wonder how this blame game will play out? I’m sure they will demonize the evil oil company...and they do share huge amount if not all the blame. But Hussein said he was in charge since day 1 and tried to take credit for fixing the problem. So if he wants credit when he thought it was fixed he surely gets the blame for when it fails.
I *think* the new dome/cap is going to do something like that. They have it with an open end and then they will bring it into ships on the surface until they can get the relief drill created sometime in August.
Yes, but considering it's down THOUSANDS of feet underwater (33 feet = 1 atmosphere pressure) it will probably gush for an incalculable amount of time and seep oil until Judgment Day.
They tend to get crossed.
LOL!!! Of course! Greenpeace did it, with the CIA's help, under orders from Obama himself!
Hey, if the screaming Left could force the press to beat up Bush with these kind of allegations for eight years, we can try it, too...
Obama has about as much impact on what happens in the Gulf, as a fart in a windstorm.
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