Do you think they were able stop the flow?
How hard will it be to seal the line at the depth of nearly a mile?
It is hard to tell what happened and no one that was there seems to be talking. And while I have never been a well that was lost, I have been on rigs where the mud man saved our asses.
From what have read and heard, it does not seem that the blow out preventer failed completely as there would be much more oil in the water than is being reported.
Perhaps things happened very quickly and the BOP was not engaged or instruments failed and there was little warning.
There is some other speculation that some other thing on the platform exploded.
from my limited experience, worked oilfield boats, there should be a wellhead on the bottom..Mississippi Canyon block 252 is about 815 fathoms...just under 5000 foot....wellhead was put there by an ROV, should be a valve on it......which could be closed by an ROV...question is where is the rig in relation to the wellhead?