BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well (update on #184)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/15/10 | AP

[NormsRevenge]

NEW ORLEANS – BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April.

[omega4179]

Shep has been completely hysterical for 2 months.

[mason-dixon]

Is THIS a “Capricorn One” (sic) moment????

Mason dixon

[mad_as_he$$]

Count on me for $100 to your bail fund. No jury (unless gay) would convict you.

[mowowie]

Obama plugged the hole!!!!!

After the first 18 that is.....

[mad_as_he$$]

Never been done at that depth and there was a lot of concern that it would topple the BOP - which it still might do. I hope they anchor the thing before it falls over.

[rurgan]

Obama still banned offhore oil drilling in the Gulf. That was our main economic engine here in southern Louisiana. Obama will not allow drilling in the Gulf ever as liberals want to destroy the oil industry/capitalism.

Obama also cut navy contracts so that our only shipyard is closing in New Orlean. So Obama/Stalin and the media have destroyed all the jobs here. We have no jobs.

[justa-hairyape]

So is the ROV feed for Skandi 1 showing the Seismic Survey live ?

[justa-hairyape]

James Carville was on CNN last night highlighting that fact. IMHO - Marxist are horrible at Risk Management. They cannot even understand the concept. They basically think of it as something used in a Seinfeld skit (Ovaltine and Risk Management Speeches). We just need to properly manage the risks, but instead the knee jerk Marxist response is to just ban the activity all together.

[NormsRevenge]

not sure.. it looked pretty dead a little while ago

a couple hours ago..

REUTERS/BP

[rurgan]

Yes. I'm glad Carville said something. Only us who live down here know that the media and Obama/democrats/Marxists have destroyed all our jobs down here in southern Louisiana as the liberal mainstream media hides this fact because they want to portray Obama/democrats as caring for people's jobs.So caring are democrats yeah sure as much as a genocidal dictator. Democrats are pure evil.

[NormsRevenge]

Courtesy of GlobalWarming.House.gov

Oil Spill in the Gulf - Live Cam

BP Oil Spill Live Video Feed

http://globalwarming.house.gov/spillcam

[justa-hairyape]

Currently shows a screen that states it is running a Sonar Survey.

[NormsRevenge]

Markey to BP: After Well Shut-in Tests Complete, Measure Full Flow
http://globalwarming.house.gov/mediacenter/pressreleases_2008?id=0290#main_content

[NormsRevenge]

I’d be checking the seismographs and getting out of Dodge too if it goes bad.. lots of trepidation on the gubamint’s part.. BP may be footing the bill but the gubamint is signing off on their efforts.. I say , if it don’t collapse or blow up in afew weeks,, tap it drain it dry.. and then, run like heck.. to the bank. :-)

[rurgan]

Yes exactly .And Marxists/democrats/liberals also banned offshore oil drilling because they know if they destroy oil then they destroy capitalism. Liberals/Marxists tried to destroy oil with decades of fake ,made up research, called global warming. And so they saw this opportunity and ran with it.

Obama banned offshore drilling , stopping the economic engine of this area , southern Louisiana.

[NormsRevenge]

BP shares surge after cap stops oil flow
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_bi_ge/us_bp_shares

up 8%

[mlo]

"Man, I knew I should have invested in BP while it was low. It had nowhere to go but up."

I bought options. It was almost inevitable that an announcement like this would come eventually, and the reaction would be predictable. Sometimes the market is just too obvious. I love it when that happens.

[NormsRevenge]

Thank Me!

[NormsRevenge]

The well is plugged? Great!

Let me get back to you. I got to go drive this electric thingy around and take some pics.

US President Barack Obama (R), seen here trying out an electric Ford Focus in Holland, Michigan, admitted Thursday the progress he had wrought in turning around the economy was not yet sufficient to repair the "enormous damage" of the worst recession in decades. (AFP/Saul Loeb)

[justa-hairyape]

From what I have read, government regulations require that any undersea well bore that experienced a blow out, cannot be used for production. It must be permanently sealed. That was from a comment on the Oil Drum. Now they could go for new production wells on the same reservoir, but one can only imagine the red tape the government will now put in front of the process.