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Here's a particulary good post from The Oil Drum thread on this subject:

"What a surprise. Sound engineering by real engineers finally fixed the problem. Without tectonic plate shift, without gigantic End Of World methane bubbles, without the whole world ending up waist deep in crude oil. Perhaps all the doom merchants & conspiracy theorists can now slink off quietly. Move right along. Nothing to see here. We simply had one of a thousand steel pipes break, possibly due to human error. Could have happened anywhere to anyone. Life's like that. You really think that this BP well (being operated by a US firm) is anything special? Was it the only one in the whole wide world with such problems? Of course not - there are probably many more out there. This whole circus has been exploited by Obama & other US politicians. BP will now be looted by US lawyers and the US government - perhaps with background support of US oil interests. Maybe US citizens will be taken in by this whole thing - but those outside the US can clearly see the US response for what it was - and will continue to be - a thieving operation."

That is what you call counting your chickens before they hatch. This is still a blown out well. Just temporarily contained. They still need to cement this thing. Right now they will be running sonar tests to detect movement in the area around the wellhead. So the actual factual picture right now is that have dangerously increased the pressure on a blown out well head and they are running sonar to see if the pressure is starting to leak oil up through areas of the damaged well bore. BTW - The internal pressure sensors are only update every 12 seconds. They could conceivably lose control of the well again if she ruptures and they would only learn this after the fact.

But, then we have Matt Simmons, who says this is all a “magic trick”, (paraphrasing) and the real leak is miles away.

Who to believe?

http://freepressonline.com/main.asp?SectionID=52&SubSectionID=78&ArticleID=7615

And, then there is this guy, who has an opposing view...

http://www.georgewashington2.blogspot.com/

Here's a particulary good post from The Oil Drum thread on this subject

Good post filled with good sense. Rare concerning this political/media carnival side show. Just hope BO or the eco-wackos don't try to undermine this any further.