“But he believes this crisis will be solved by plugging the hole”
I left my deepwater drilling license in the crackerjack box, but hasn’t it been pretty well established that BP is afraid to completely plug the hole, and put the well under pressure...because the casing was never completely cemented, and the rock around it is surely eroded now? This is the third or fourth time the admin has used ‘plug the hole’ terminology, If they are supposed to be in charge, they had better get their act together - and not give people the impression that this thing can be stopped in the next few days, by simply ‘plugging a hole’.
My license is in a similar location, but why don’t they drill a short well quite close to the leaker to either intercept same or just be there to take the pressure off the current well head? It’d be faster.
You have it. The answer is to drill side relief wells to siphon off pressure. Which may be precisely why Obambi has disallowed any more drilling permits.... this is intentional destruction of native soil mineral rights. So we can all ride bikes to drive our beanie hat windmills with our solar panel shirts on pulling deep cycle batteries in a cart. Cuba is the model, don’t forget.