BP official: 'We've significantly cut the flow' of oil from damaged rig

[phantom power]

MOBILE, Ala. -- BP has significantly cut the flow of oil leaking from its damaged Deepwater Horizon rig on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, a company spokesman said this morning.

Jeff Childs, a deputy incident commander for BP, said in a briefing with Alabama officials that the company successfully shut a set of hydraulic shears known as annular rams, helping to clamp the ruptured pipe and block the leaking oil.

"We've significantly cut the flow through the pipe," Childs said at the Mobile briefing hosted by U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Tuscaloosa.

Childs said the company was still trying to activate a set of shear rams that are designed to seal the well by shearing off the drill pipe. The job is complicated, he said, because it is occurring at depths of more than 5,000 feet.

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_official_weve_significantly.html

[luvspeas]

1. I don't believe a thing they say...

nt

[stopbush]

15. Why not? If they're lying it will be obvious to everyone, won't it?

Or, it could be bad info coming from a bad source. In any case, if the flow hasn't slowed, everyone will know and BP will look like idiots.

What gain could there be in lying in such a case?

[Statistical]

18. Well then BP looks like idiots. BP issues retraction "oil flow has NOT slowed".

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_says_oil_flow_from_deepwate.html

You can't make this stuff up.

[pscot]

23. Çareful now. Don't take your eyes off it

OK. Which one is it under?

[Blue Owl]

2. Offshore drilling is safe again

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[CountAllVotes]

3. You LIE

and I believe they are liars! This is all these corporate pigs know how to do - LIE LIE LIE LIE LIE!

:mad:

:dem: :kick:

[Ozymanithrax]

4. Pardon me if I wait for someone else to certify that finding.

[phantom power]

5. I'm sure eveybody will continue to watch the satellite photos with great interest.

I know I will.

[Statistical]

9. Exactly I would like a confirmation from the EPA.

If it is true then that is good news. I mean more oil simply mean even more ecological damage. Lose-lose.

[flamingdem]

6. How come the MSM is silent on this except for Fox? nt

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, I have this bridge near me I could sell you REALLY CHEAP!!!

[sharp_stick]

8. I hope he's right

we'll see soon enough.

[deacon_sephiroth]

10. someone here should be optimistic

it's not gonna be me... I'm just sayin, somebody.

[wtmusic]

12. I'll be the one *draws crude target on his forehead*

It would be great.*


*Confirmation would be next to impossible.

[BeFree]

16. It would be great

And one day it will be plugged, or run out.

[Statistical]

11. BP issues retraction - "oil flow remains unchanged"

The company stated in a release: "BP would like to clarify that, contrary to some media reports, the actions it has taken to date on the blow out preventer have not resulted in any observed reduction in the rate of flow of oil from the MC252 well."

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/bp_says_oil_flow_from_deepwate.html

Damn.

[phantom power]

17. Nuts.

:(

[deacon_sephiroth]

19. glad I didn't get my hopes up n/t

[joshcryer]

20. I was very skeptical coming in to this thread.

I'm glad my intuition is still intact.

[tom_paine]

24. That Deputy Incident Commander is in SOOOO much trouble for telling the truth.

Make book on it.

Corporate PR dictates that an immediate firing or other recriminatory actions be tabled until the cameras are pointed somehwre else, but it is almost a certainty that this person will, AT THE VERY LEAST be getting some flack on his next performance review for "not supporting the corporation" and foolishly contradicting BP PR's carefully constructed Executive Lie.

The beginning of this guy's career started today. "Not a team player" "loose cannon" and the rest will dog and harass him until he quits in disgust or makes the smallest mistake to be fired.

Sure, that's the cynical view, and yet it has played out so many times amongst America's Corproate Aristocracy it is almost certain to come to pass in some form or another

Poor bastard. Foolishly telling the truth and contradicting an Aristocrat when he should have been protecting the Corporate Mega-Person.

[madokie]

13. I'll sell them a bridge to reach out there to that spot and install it if they want

real cheap

BP lies methinks

[tinrobot]

14. I sure hope they're not lying

But we'll just have to wait and see on that...

[GeorgeGist]

21. The Mad Hatters, ...

with Shelby at the plate, strike out again.

But weep not for their tea party. They're too topsy-turvy to notice.

[jimlup]

22. unfortunately ...

The guy was overly optimistic as is now reported in the link.