[PA Engineer]

My gues is there is about 18,000 feet of drill pipe laying on the floor of the gulf and the BOP stack was destroyed. They will be lucky if they can “top kill” this well. There is nothing to tie onto and no BOP to close if they do have some success. The only way out that I can see is a releif well drilled into the existing well bore.These guys are screwed!...regards - red

This is what I was also able to figure out. That is why I am keeping my fingers crossed. They also have gas and oil intrusion around the casing annular space. I cannot think of any other solution besides relief wells if this does not work. Finally, I do not know how the top kill is going to work without circulation.

[SueRae]

Have you an idea as to the pipe diameter or any estimates of the size of the holes in it?