>> Right now there are too many ships already in the immediate vicinity.
Given the months that have passed, I find this logistics failure hard to believe.
It’s not really a logistics failure, it’s a simple matter of volume. There’s a lot of station-keeping, a lot of lines and pipes and other things that are rather at risk of damage (the current riser is particularly risky, they expect to replace it with more robust undersea risers over hte next month).
They simply can’t risk trying to drive another two large ships trying to station-keep, knowing that a 20-minute power failure on any of the ships could cause another disaster.
They can burn off the oil, it’s a perfectly rational solution at this point.