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The Well is currently "Stabilized"....I think that is the term they are using....
It is not leaking...but portions of the BOP structure are however.
justa-hairyape; has been spending a lot of time watching what is going on around the top of the well head.
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There is an enormous amount of discussion at TOD on Plumes,.corexit, microbes , where did the oil go ...who did what to whom....etc.
The itty bitty critters seem to have been busy!
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Interesting observations....maybe since BP was trying to bill itself as THE Green company it was supplying funds to a lot of the Greenies....and they didn't want to risk impacting the money flow....but I don't really know.
Thinking of carry_okie here....he might have some ideas.
Too many of them, unfortunately. I've been on vacation (first in 20 years) so I haven't been following this one closely.
With cap and raid in the offing, BP may see more opportunities in crooked "renewables" than in oil. That said, they need prices to be high enough to make those investments pencil. Hence, with a general recession under full swing, a huge find of light crude near the Gulf Coast is the one thing they do not need, as it would depress pricing considerably. So a massive debacle with a consequent environmental crash would justify a ban on "deep water drilling" and be just the ticket. That it removes one more source of food for ConUS as delivered by independent small businesses is a twofer.
What that means is that it will be open season for the ChiComs, Brazilians, etc., which is exactly what the Globalists want anyway.
I watched the Senate hearings on corext yesterday. The one thing the panel had to say besides "dump grant money on us" was the token NGO supposed advocate "for the oceans" to drone on about the absolute requirement for a ban on drilling and "retraining" all those workers for a domestic renewable energy market.
Funny, she had almost nothing to say about marine biology...
When the one Gulf Coast scientist quietly reminded her that the Gulf adsorbs the equivalent of an Exxon Valdiz EVERY YEAR in natural seeps that are themselves a source of nutrition for the base of the marine biological pyramid, well, it was sort of a circus.
Right now the three main seals leaks in the stack have stopped leaking. At least two have, they have not shown us the one near the center of the BOP in awhile. They really could not anyway, since it was completely caked over with crud. It appears however that the main BOP leaks all stopped cold right around the time we were publicly notified that Thad gave the okay for cement.
They have had an ROV on the well head, where gas was leaking from valves, since they started the injectivity test and the Top Kill Mud process. Not once have I seen a live feed for what is going on down at the well head. That is one area where the outer casing leakage could have been forced up by the pressure of the inner casing Top Mud Kill. So we have no clue about outer casing leakage.
And I rarely know what the MSM crowd is even saying. Have no way to watch it. To me it is usually the Comedy Network anyway. Just invert what they say and you are closer to the truth.