BP Stops Oil Leak…

[Winehole23]

(don't wanna jinx it. Nuff said.)

[MannyIsGod]

Either way, this cap won't be a permanent fix, right? They'll open the valves in order to start capturing the oil again or they'll try for another top kill, right?

I'm not going to start buying into conspiracy theories until I have proof.

[Spurminator]

Either way, this cap won't be a permanent fix, right?

Only if they can figure out a way to open up an underwater amusement park around it.

[CosmicCowboy]

Either way, this cap won't be a permanent fix, right? They'll open the valves in order to start capturing the oil again or they'll try for another top kill, right?

I'm not going to start buying into conspiracy theories until I have proof.

I have read that after tests are complete they will tie into the top of the new valve and open it and start capturing the oil again, but this time with a tight fitting cap. Depending on the test results, if a hurricane comes in they will close the valve when they leave for safety (assuming everything tests fine) and reopen it when they come back. If the tests prove that the casing is damaged and leaking they will still have to leave if a hurricane comes, but they will just leave the valve open and let the oil blow till they come back.

[Nbadan]

Either way, this cap won't be a permanent fix, right? They'll open the valves in order to start capturing the oil again or they'll try for another top kill, right?

I'm not going to start buying into conspiracy theories until I have proof.

They are planning on capping the well, using cement fed through one of the relief wells to permanently cap that well...

[CosmicCowboy]

Thats assuming relief well #1 or relief well #2 can actually intersect the bore squarely and actually make a clean penetration. Thats a huge "IF". That will require accuracy measured in a few inches and at those debts +/- five feet is considered extremely accurate. It's gonna take some luck.

[boutons_deux]

BP Launches Effort To Control Scientific Research Of Oil Disaster


Foreign oil giant BP is on a spending spree, buying Gulf Coast scientists for its private contractor army. Scientists from Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University and Texas A&M have “signed contracts with BP to work on their behalf in the Natural Resources Damage Assessment (NRDA) process” that determines how much ecological damage the Gulf of Mexico region is suffering from BP’s toxic black tide. The contract, the Mobile Press-Register has learned, “prohibits the scientists from publishing their research, sharing it with other scientists or speaking about the data that they collect for at least the next three years.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/07/16/bp-closed-research/

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BP going into full Exxon -the-victims/save-our-money mode.

[Trainwreck2100]

Thats assuming relief well #1 or relief well #2 can actually intersect the bore squarely and actually make a clean penetration. Thats a huge "IF". That will require accuracy measured in a few inches and at those debts +/- five feet is considered extremely accurate. It's gonna take some luck.

depths

[boutons_deux]

they say they have some kind of magnetic instrument to guide the relief hole to the first well pipe

[CosmicCowboy]

depths

typo

I'm quite proficient at spelling

[Trainwreck2100]

typo

I'm quite proficient at spelling

spelling's not the problem, it is proofreading. Also that's an impossible typo

[CosmicCowboy]

spelling's not the problem, it is proofreading. Also that's an impossible typo

whatever makes you feel better dude. I know how to spell. Actually my eyes are going a little and I'm trying to get by with those drug store glasses. My screen is just a hair fuzzy at this distance and I didn't catch it. Can't believe you've spent two friggen posts on a mis-spelled word.

[Trainwreck2100]

whatever makes you feel better dude. I know how to spell. Actually my eyes are going a little and I'm trying to get by with those drug store glasses. My screen is just a hair fuzzy at this distance and I didn't catch it. Can't believe you've spent two friggen posts on a mis-spelled word.

whether or not it's misspelled is debatable

[CosmicCowboy]

whether or not it's misspelled is debatable

3

[Trainwreck2100]

3

to misspell a word like you did when you said "mis-speled"l is a misspelled word

when you use debt instead of depth you're spelling debt correctly so it's not misspelled. You're just using the wrong word.

[CosmicCowboy]

to misspell a word like you did when you said "mis-speled"l is a misspelled word

when you use debt instead of depth you're spelling debt correctly so it's not misspelled. You're just using the wrong word.

4

[Trainwreck2100]

4

no wonder nobody likes you, you're a

[CosmicCowboy]

5

[Trainwreck2100]

5

5? that had nothing to do with a misspelled word. Do you even know what you are about?

[CosmicCowboy]

OK

[SnakeBoy]

It's pretty funny hearing Obama talk about this. When it was bad news he always said "BP..." now it's "We...".

[CosmicCowboy]

Yep. "We" got the oil stopped. See Ya. I'm going to Maine on Vacation. Y'alls beaches are...nasty!

[Trainwreck2100]

OK

nice edit i liked the "get a life" response you made better tbh

[CosmicCowboy]

Both replies essentially said the same thing. The second was just a little more subtle.

[Wild Cobra]

"can recover 100% of the oil"

one long-time oil guy said BP may not want to recover all oil, since fines are based on qty of oil. If some oil is captured, but some is not, then BP s bag lawyers can always argue down the amt for the fine.

Capturing all the oil now makes it accurately countable, all the way back to the original blowout.

BP will always have its own interest ($$$) as its overwhelming priority, not the interests of the Gulf or the Gulf shore residents. There no way to be too cynical about these and any corporate assholes, they're all guilty until proven innocent.

I think you're being too cynical here. Maybe a little less than normal however. Personally, I don't think your su ion will be correct. If any continues to leak, it will be harder on the company and investors than being shrouded in mystery. At least I don't find this hypothesis as unrealistic compared to most you have.