Effort to contain Gulf oil stalls with stuck saw

http://news.yahoo.com/ ^ | June 2, 2010 | Greg Bluestein And Brian Skooff

[Biggirl]

PORT FOURCHON, La. – The risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil spill hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-edged saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

[Fido969]

[pingman]

Where’s the /sarc tag?

[pingman]

“I command you to un-stick the damn saw!!” / bitter sarc

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I appreciate your countering my speculation with some facts. I can’t even begin to imagine working in water 5000 feet below sea level at, what, 2000 psi pressures? I’m not trying to make light of the challenge they face in stopping this oil leak, it just seemed that the methods being used were intended to save the well.

You are saying the well is lost, so thank you for clearing that up. I wouldn’t have thought that the pipe wall thickness would be so severely degraded with the mud pumped in but then I can’t begin to appreciate the mud’s pressure or velocity during the pumping operation.

I hope they fix this soon. We can’t wait until August to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mississippi.

[norraad]

"they don’t give a damn how much oil spills....."

After all the just bought the biggest cleanup company right before this happened.

At least they hedge their bets.

[JohnBrowdie]

“I command you to un-stick the damn saw!!” / bitter sarc

if nothing else, and it probably is NOTHING else, obama is knocking the stuffing out of the notion that government is the answer to any problem for a very, very long time.