” I wonder if this might accelerate the placement of the new “bolt-on” cap, which would eliminate the possiblity of this type incident. “
I was wondering about as well. I have heard some news sources say that plan has already been deemed a failure as they were not able to remove any of the bolts needed, but now I am way past the point of believing so much as a syllable that comes from any coverage of this at face value. Maybe they will now go for that instead from here.
The guys over at "The Oil Drum" have a different opinion. I suspect their sources are more knowledgable than the medias. One comment there talked about successful nut/bolt removal, but I don't know if that was in a test environment, or on the actual spillsite BOP.