[Freddd]

Wow so it just flows unfettered...but the headlines for the last 3 days?

The cap will STOP the leak.

Since the delay, it tells me the pressure is too low, verifying the well bore is compromised. Not good.

[Red_Devil 232]

They have no idea what the pressure is that was the purpose of the testing that was scheduled to start today!

The idiot "Nobel Prize Winner" Chu probably had to have his say.

[Citizen Tom Paine]

From the little bit of info presented to the public, there appears to be a fair probability that the well bore hole is compromised. This raises the probability that the oil is leaking from more than one location.

[UCANSEE2]

Looking at the ROV feeds, it would seem ALL activity has stopped.

[justa-hairyape]

Since the delay, it tells me the pressure is too low, verifying the well bore is compromised. Not good.

You have to wonder about that. But this was a government approved plan from the beginning. BP cannot do anything now without government approval. Once the government approves BP plans, they are government approved plans. Got that US Fed stamp of approval on them. So in reality, the feds are stating that their was a problem with the plans the Fed had approved.

[Chaguito]

The point of the article is that they haven't closed a single valve yet. So, there is absolutely no way to know what the pressure in the well is at this point.

And the point of the testing will be whether the sealed well holds pressure, whatever that pressure may be, rather than bleeding it off somewhere else.