[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Subthread from today's open thread on The Oil Drum:

a story on Bloomberg about the delay....

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beachmommy on July 14, 2010 - 10:31am

Condensed version:

BP & gov officials still intend to conduct the assessment, which BP and OBAMA (?) admin will use to determine whether the leak can be safely sealed.
Trial was scheduled to start yesterday, and it was postponed after BP met with Allan, Chu and a government team of scientist and industry experts, who decided more analysis needed to be done before they proceeded. "We continue to review protocols for the well integrity test, including the seismic mapping run that was made around the well site this morning" Allen said. "As a result of those discussions we decided the process may benfit from additional analysis". BP is continuing to operate a system for capturing some of the oil, which is piped to surface ships.

Once the test begins, BP may need 48 hours of data to declare the well safe to seal, and we may know within 6 hours if it can't be sealed.

The rest of the article is old news.

[Smokin' Joe]

Trial was scheduled to start yesterday, and it was postponed after BP met with Allan, Chu and a government team of scientist and industry experts, who decided more analysis needed to be done before they proceeded.

Pretty much says it all, doesn't it?