Posted on 07/13/2010 10:44:36 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
BP and US Coast Guard officials said further analysis was needed before pressure testing could begin.
If it proves successful, the well will be kept "shut in" and the leak halted until relief wells plug it entirely.
The blown-out well has been spewing oil into Gulf waters since April. The US administration has sent BP and other parties a new bill for the clean-up.
The administration says the latest bill is for $99.7m (£65.8m).
The oil giant has already fully paid the last three bills totalling $122.2m (£80.6m) for costs related to response and clean-up of the spill, according to the Obama administration.'No promises'
The test in the Gulf of Mexico, which was supposed to begin on Tuesday, will determine whether BP's new cap can contain the oil.
Coast Guard chief Admiral Thad Allen said the extra analysis would continue into Wednesday.
This latest move to stop the oil comes a day after the containment cap was placed on the leaking well.
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The sealing cap system never before has been deployed at these depths or under these conditions
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Work on the permanent relief well solution continues.
BP Vice-President Kent Wells said no promises could be made about whether the new cap would work.
"It's not simple stuff. What we don't want to do is speculate around it," he said.
Shutting in the well would provide a temporary solution to the leaking oil. BP is continuing work on the relief well that is expected permanently to stop the oil.
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You’re reply was plenty - I had just never heard of it before... Thanks for sharing.
Setback: BP cap in limbo over gov't questions (Obama stops plugging the leak and relief wells)
Here is what they are working on.
http://www.helium.com/items/1889648-bp-preparing-super-weapon-to-avert-escalating-gulf-nightmare
Here’s clinton breaking you in for the bad news, Ernest. They are going through the “cap it” and “relief well” gyrations for your “hope” and to logically lead you to the final solution. As we see each “attempt” fail, we need to clear out before they do a mass herd evacuation, or worse, leave us in place to see how it all works out with their “expert” assurances it is all hunky dory.
http://www.helium.com/items/1889648-bp-preparing-super-weapon-to-avert-escalating-gulf-nightmare
Say ten hail marys and four our fathers before wishing that an explosion touches that methane. ;)
If the seabed and bedrock are already fractured/compromised, then nuking it would be a bad idea.
The smart people know better and the uneducation, ignorant masses.
They are gonna do it and they know that now.
Obama and his followers just naturally generate a lot of conspiracy theories.
Yeah. Know what you mean.
A lot of knowledgable people would disagree with you about what happened in that video. BP switched the camera so fast it was hard to study it, though.
As I recall, weren’t you the one who jumped on me for writing about the leak entering the Gulf stream? If not you, someone who knows everything on this site claimed BP had that all under control with the slick blocked off from the Gulf stream. LOL!
https://www.cstars.miami.edu/Media/photo-gallery?func=detail&id=538
And the tin foil hat crowd who think that is a rock on the sea floor leaking oil, in that second video, need some very heavy duty foil! The whole floor around that well is nothing but layers of silt until you get to depth. It is nothing more than a piece of the riser laying on the sea floor that they cut off a few days earlier.
You have yet to provide a source for any of your information.
Perhaps you could tell me what geological formation stretches contiguously from Texas to New York?
I did not claim to be an 'expert' on methane deposits in North America, but a petroleum geologist.
You want links to five years of formal geological education and thirty one years of experience in the oil industry?
LOL!
How do I give you a link to a Westburne Drilling Co. Rig in Montana in 1979? Or a Cardinal Rig in Nevada? Or an Adcor Rig in Colorado? Or a Nabors Rig in North Dakota? or any of the two hundred wellsites I have worked on over the decades?
To save time, just google the Geological Surveys of those states and more (add in Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, for starters), and don't forget the Appalachian states, either. At least some of the data will be there.
I reckon if your life can be put up in links on the internet, you haven't been out there much--but you claim to have done geological research, so I figured (since you are not a geologist) the research you did was at least partly on the web.
You are the one making assertions which don't have any evidence to back them. You tell me you did research, but won't provide your sources.
Getting snarky with me doesn't prove squat.
By the way they have started the testing of the well! No longer spewing oil from the top! They have closed that top hydraulic valve. Now spewing out of the side.
Sorry, I was in a snarky mood. I am not going to get into a pissing match with you. We will just watch to see what unfolds.
We’ll see, Red Devil. Are you the man wearing the blinders or am I the woman with the tin foil hat. :)
I'll go for that.
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