BP Spill Still Causing Problems

Family Security Matters ^ | August 20, 2010 | The Editor

[captjanaway]

The Gulf Oil Spill saga is not over yet. The disaster started on April 20 this year at the Macondo site, 44 miles off the coast of S.E. Louisiana, when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up and sank. The explosion killed 11 people, rupturing the well that was being drilled, 5,000 feet below the surface, and sending millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

On July 15, after placing an experimental cap onto the leaking well, BP announced that for the first time in 87 days, no oil was leaking into the ocean. Governor Bobby Jindal was cautious about the announcement, saying:

“It is too early to declare victory... Our battles don't end even when the well is capped. Millions of gallons of oil are still in the Gulf and some estimates show that oil will continue to hit our shores for many more months or maybe even longer.”

[Izzy Dunne]

one must wait for the retrieval of the blowout preventer to be able to condemn the company fully for the devastation of the Gulf

Yeah, let's wait for the trial before we hang 'im.

[mazda77]

Kind of a rambling article mainly forcused at beating up BP, not that they don’t deserve it, but nothing much beyond things we already know or are told by pointy headed itellectuals. We being those who have followed this very closely in a technical sense.

Now if someone really wanted to sound an alarm, it was yesterday I heard a news report saying they were going to remove the BOP before finishing the relief wells. My immediate response was; Oh, No! here comes round two. Since the BOP is part of the apparatus that is now sealing the main drilling, wouldn’t removing it before the reliefs are finished make for a runaway well with absolutely no apparatus there to help contain it?