BP Prepares For New Effort To Halt Oil Leak

[imurhuckleberry]

Source: NPR

BP said Wednesday that it hopes to begin shooting a mixture known as drilling mud into the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico early next week.

Engineers hope to start the procedure known as a "top kill" by Sunday. It could take several weeks to complete, but if it works it should stop the oil that's been gushing since the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded off the coast of Louisiana on April 20 and sank two days later.

"Let's all keep our fingers crossed. Let's all say our prayers," said Coast Guard Rear Adm. Mary Landry. "We absolutely hope top kills works. We're anxious to see that it does."

Engineers are testing pressure to make sure the busted blowout preventer on the seabed can handle heavy liquids plugging the leak.

Read more: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126977747

[flamingdem]

1. Didn't the whistleblower say that it was damaged in an accident? nt

[Catherina]

2. Plug the entire thing up including the intersection points. Pinch the pipes.

Seal off the well's bore with cement and pray it doesn't shoot back up like a champagne cork.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

BP engineers (shown above) are testing pressure to make
sure the busted blowout preventer on the seabed can handle
heavy liquids plugging the leak.

[DURHAM D]

4. Poorly written article. nt

[Angry Dragon]

5. The top people at bp are just a group of asses

This whole time they have been playing around with this well has to do with not losing the well and having to drill another hole. Just looking at their bottom line. People have died, things have dies during this circus of greed.

Unless these people are tried for murder nothing will change. They will walk away after paying a fine and it will be back to business as usual.