[Red Badger]

Think of it this way:

You are trying to lasso a piece of spaghetti with another piece of spaghetti from a hundred feet away with blinders on.............

[cicero2k]

I thought the relief wells were simply an attempt to produce oil from the same formation close to the leaking well, at such a rate that the leaking well is relieved from flow.

Now it sounds like they are trying to physically intercept the leaking well shaft above the reservoir and plug it. This would be much more difficult to do.

So which is it?

[The Comedian]

Hate to say it again.

ELE.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[Revelation 911]

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967

[Incorrigible]

Nuke the hole!