[mojitojoe]

As usual, mixed messages.

UPDATE II: BP spokesperson John Curry denied reports of any problems with the Lower Marine Rise Package, which begins drilling today.

Reports that BP had canceled all rescue plans were based on a headline from Bloomberg: Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP’s Leaking Well Are Over, Coast Guard Says. While BP is ending efforts to halt the flow, it will continuing efforts to capture the flow.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/disaster-bp-already-aborts-plan-to-attach-second-blowout-preventer-2010-6#ixzz0pdCHWdP2

Stop trying stop flow does not equal stopping all relief operations. Just that they aren’t going to try to top kill anymore, and have apparently decided not to try stopping flow w/ a second BOP.

Efforts will continue to capture as much oil as possible (LRMP ‘hat’).

You don’t drill w/ an LRMP...you drill with a drillship, semi-sub, jack-up, or other drilling rig.

What started today were operations on the LRMP.....

Just a writer who doesn’t understand what’s going on

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6541

[WOSG]

Ah, a “Devil’s Dictionary” definition:

Journalist, noun. “Just a writer who doesn’t understand what’s going on”