[deport]

....It seems to me that BP is going out of its way to keep producing from that well rather than permanently seal it......

You got any working suggestions as to how they may accomplish a seal from the top?

........ 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..........

I’d bet if you asked the folks along the coast they’d tell you they damn well care how much is captured.

[norraad]

It all could easily have been captured with temp risers flex clamped and securely sealed around the existing leaks in the riser laying on the seafloor.