Allen: 'Static kill' is controlling oil well, but more work still ahead (Deepwater Horizon )

Washington Post ^ | Wednesday, August 4, 2010; 12:22 PM | Joel Achenbach and William Branigin

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

"You want to make sure it's really dead, dead, dead. Don't want anything to rise out of the grave," Energy Secretary Steven Chu told The Washington Post late Tuesday afternoon.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Finally!

But not done just yet,...they will still be out there into September....

[cameraeye]

Funny thing this morning, I noticed that since they are able to stop the gusher, the price of gas has gone up slowly. Are you used to paying $3 a gallon yet? Not to worry, it will climb about a dollar by Christmas. I feel more like a schmuck everyday.

[Yo-Yo]

That extra casing and cement work BP passed on because it was too expensive is looking pretty cheap now, isn’t it BP?

[Sacajaweau]

I was viewing one site where after a spill, they were hosing the oil in what looked like wetlands. Also the storms HELP break up the oil so that little storm was just a little more of mother nature at work. Always amazed!!!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

It has been over $3.00 forever out here....SoCal.

Premium is around $3.30 at the Major name stations.

[calex59]

Well, on crisis under control, time for Bozo and the boys to find a new one to try to terrify people with so he can tax the sh** out of us.

[calex59]

Yeah, about the lowest you can find it in northern CA is 3.03 and most of the stations in my area are at 3.13.

[Ingtar]

I suppose the silver lining to the cloud of Obama possibily beating the Arizona law is that it should also make California’s emission standards invalid. Yeah, right.

[mountainlion]

Wasn't it nice of them to plug the well on Boama’s supposed birthday? Gas fell below $2.50.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

BP statement!

MC252 Well Reaches Static Condition; Well Monitoring Underway

http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7064173

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ugh!

[PATRIOT1876]

I thought that the spill was supposed to be at least 10 billion times worse than we could ever imagine!

Sometimes nature does a good job when humans mess things up.
God planned everything so that it takes care of itself.

[gulfcoast6]

Obama sure is doing a good job in getting the flow stopped, huh? Like uh, sure, right, notice he has not been back down here, not that we miss him, not like he did any good other than spending a lot of money on nothing, he has done nothing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This may be the bigger news:

U.S. Says 74 Percent of BP Oil Gone From Gulf Waters

it's a Bloomberg /Businessweek article.

[bray]

Perhaps we can get those drilling rigs back from $oro$ and get back to drilling our own oil.

Pray for America

[colorado tanker]

Meanwhile, the Obummer administration says the Gulf drilling moratorium will stay in place until the Gulf oil industry is dead, dead, dead, and all workers are unemployed. Their hope is oil prices will go so high we will all buy Volts from Government Motors.

[justa-hairyape]

The new BOP seal they busted out during the Top Kill mud injection is still leaking. See it below live.

New Top Kill Leak

The leak is not slowing and holding steady with a slight increase. Also note that leaking product is rising. Should not drilling mud be falling to the ground ? The BOP is still leaking oil. How is that possible ?

[justa-hairyape]

FYI - Looks like the new BOP seal leak in the top area has stopped leaking.

[justa-hairyape]

FYI - Also looks like the leak in the 3 Ram Stack seal has stopped. Wonder if they sent the Cement Kill Pill down ? Or perhaps they stopped the pressure from the Mud Ship and let the mud get pushed up by the oil.