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.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Barry "Crisis" Soetoro is deeply saddened.

[NormsRevenge]

This still image from a live BP video feed shows a well integrity test on oil leaking in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy giant BP on Thursday stopped oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time since April as it shut all valves on a new cap placed on top of a fractured wellhead, a BP official said. (AFP/BP)

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Ok.. Who has the plugg'd on this date pool sheet? Big Prizes for the 'winners'.. a lifetime or two of tarballs and more..

[ozzymandus]

So you’ll believe Obama?

[Parmenio]

BP stock immediately spiked up. Chart:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=BP+Basic+Chart&t=1d

[Constitution Day]

Hmm. We’ll see.

[NormsRevenge]

Map locating the extent of the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. With the leaking choke line replaced, BP crews completed final tests on the valve's seal before authorizing remote-controlled robots and monitoring vessels to return to the area for the pressure reading process. (AFP graphic/Sophie Ramis)

[muawiyah]

Actually, what happened was Obama tried the "boot in the butt" trick, then he got all hung up on "boot in the mouth" mess.

The man had a combo-"America Held Hostage"/"Katrina" catastrophe going simultaneously.

Now the only problem he has is a runaway EPA misusing regulations to prohibit cleaning up the Gulf, and having what appears to be full command over the Coast Guard to enforce their most "ignant" and damaging of rules.

Obama is toast!

[444Flyer]

Obama plugs hole!

[Red Badger]

[UCANSEE2]

So far the ROVCAMS do not show any oil flowing.

[gulfcoast6]

Hoping now we will not be ‘blessed’ with his visits here on the coast, he doesn’t want to mingle with us ‘rednecks’ anyhow.

[tatsinfla]

perfect timing...cap the well and stop the oil just hours after the feds pass a financial reform takeover bill....

this should make the people giddy about stopping the oil and they will forget what we just passed and jammed up their azzes.....

[rovenstinez]

About a month ago, I felt God lead me to make this a matter of prayer. FIVE Governors of State´s declared Day of Prayer for the Golf Well Mishap. Today I got an email, from the charismatic prophetic circles, that this thing will BLOW in the middle of the week, and we need to urgently pray. Bob Jones on other occasions has spoken about national events and has been mostly accurate. I really respect those people on the ships working on top of this dangerous situation. If this thing blows, can we PLEASE not blame Bush, but now blame Obama for cutting out the Day of Prayer for our country?

[BuckyKat]

I’ll help with your legal bill if you’ll pay for my TV after I throw a shoe at it, LOL. His questions are so totally ignorant. You don’t have to be very bright to be a reporter.

[UCANSEE2]

I notice they are conducting another SONAR SURVEY at this time.

[Sacajaweau]

I don't know all the mechanics of this....but if we can use the present system as a working well, do we really want to attempt to tap it and plug it??

After all, the purpose of the drilling in the first place was oil.

[NormsRevenge]

Rigs exiting the gulf aren’t turning around , are they, DaDDy? (/Sasha)

[antivenom]

So you’ll believe Obama?

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Obama will be a professional when it comes to blow outs....

he will have another in Novemeber...and there is NO CAPPING that problem...

100 days to go!

[The Sons of Liberty]

Someone has to say this - why didn’t they do this sooner?

[prophetic]

Expect to see 0Bummer to throw a really wild party at the White House this weekend to celebrate this AS A MAJOR VICTORY OF OBAMA-NOMICS OVER THE EVIL OIL CAPITALISTS!!