Posted on 05/28/2010 1:49:12 PM PDT by FootBall
But the technician working on the effort said later Friday that despite the injections at various pressure levels, engineers had been able to keep less than 10 percent of the injection fluids inside the stack of pipes above the well. He said that was barely an improvement on Wednesday’s results when the operation began and was suspended after 11 hours. BP resumed the pumping effort Thursday evening for about 10 more hours.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
an albatross works better.
This oil spill is the first thing Obama thinks of in the morning and the last thing he thinks of before going to bed...
Or is it on purpose?
Enough is enough, come on fellas, you've had your fun, now get some flex-clamp suction hoses on those leaks and bring it in to the refinery.
Zero couldn’t wait to run to the podium when it appeared the top fill solution had worked and to immediately grab credit for it. Wonder what he’s going to do now — after all [HE’s] been in charge since Day ONE, supposedly.”
Come on guys, "it's a piece of pie".
Remember all this is being directed by OBarry.
BP doesnt make a move without his say so.
Joe Weisenthal
May 28, 2010, 4:31 PM
This is depressing.
Top Kill has been halted again, and BP hasn't even said anything, instead we learn about this after the bell from a report in the New York Times:
BP’s renewed efforts at plugging the flow of oil from its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico stalled again on Friday, as the company suspended pumping operations for the second time in two days, according to a technician involved with the response effort.
The lack of transparency from the company is galling. This is not some M&A deal where the outcome hinges on the operations being kept secret; this is a matter of obvious public interest.
And it's not like BP execs haven't been asked about this point blank today. Bloomberg TV's Lizzie O'Leary specifically asked top brass whether the pumping had been halted, and they refused to comment, she wrote on Twitter. Others have probably been asked and stonewalled as well.
Read the full report here >
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/top-kill-halted-again-2010-5#ixzz0pGHZ14e0 >m
Take a robot with a hose and a big flex-clamp modified from the ones they use to hook up tankers in rolling seas and hook it to the leak, they can do that, they could have done that, there's a reason they won't, that's what we need to focus on now!!!
re: there is nothing they can do to stop it
I fear you might be correct. They say the relief wells will do it, but I don’ see how that will let them get a handle on the problem.
Frankly, I blame those who have forced us to look so far out and down to get the oil we need. I know we’ve pretty much used up the oil under less water in the Gulf of Mexico, but just think how quickly this mess could have been halted if this were on dry ground rather than a mile below the surface.
I have heard several people complaining of having ideas as to how to stem the flow but they can’t get anyone to listen to them. If it were up to me I would have a phone line and a web site to ask for suggestions. Who knows, someone could have an idea that might work.
I don’t see why they can’t put a large pipe down directly over the flow and capture it into ships at the surface.
Should been able to do that from day one!
The relief wells will take the pressure off of the oil in the original drillhole , at that time they can pump in mud , cement , skittles or teddy bears ,, it’ll all go in easy. As I see it the only thing that might work faster would be the other BP plan of cutting off the pipe and dropping a new (working) BOP on top.
I really don’t understand why they cannot do something like that either. How would the methane affect that now that it is coming out of the broken riser vs. coming up a drilling pipe as it did just before the explosion?
I don’t understand why some type of large pipe or hose cannot be lowered, directing the water/oil to some type of tanker, which is then equipped with the “Kevin Costner” device to separate oil from water, and pumps the oil into another tanker and water back into the ocean.
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