It seems to me that BP is going out of its way to keep producing from that well rather than permanently seal it. Maybe our government is in the way, I dunno, but I don’t really think the folks along the coast care how much is captured.
BP struggling to process cap-collected mix of oil , seawater
“Earlier this year, before the huge demonstrations in the wake of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s brazen theft of the June presidential election, one popular opposition chant was, “O ba ma!”—in Farsi a play on the new American President’s last name that translates as, ‘He with us!’”
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704013004574515430750909534.html
Lest anyone not be convinced about this, here’s a quote from “TIME” from before many primaries in 2008:
“But the Iranians’ interest is also driven by a sense among many Iranians that the candidacy of Barack Obama offers real hope for repairing the U.S.-Iranian relationship. Commenting on the Iranian preference for a Democrat in the White House, Sergei Barseghian, a columnist for the reformist Etemad Meli newspaper noted that in Farsi, the words Oo ba ma would translate as ‘He’s with us.’”
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1732563,00.html#ixzz0qBLAzbvv
Getting 20,000 barrels from a well that BP said was only leaking 5,000 barrels. Impressive.
I do not see how BP can collect 20,000 bpd because the capacity of the container ship is only a little larger than 15,000 bpd. Perhaps someone can provide some insight about the limitations imposed by the capacity of the containment ship.