Top Kill delayed again.

[LeftyFingerPop]

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/top_kill_to_stop_gulf_of_mexic.html

[tekisui]

1. I wonder if it is related to the 'new eruption' rumored to have occured.

[LeftyFingerPop]

2. I pulled that link off the "comments" section of monkeyfister's blog...

As shown here...

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[AmericaIsGreat]

3. Check out this comment from the article

I think BP needs to be real careful here with a top kill operation. If this was an annular blowout that some experienced oilfield people including myself think it was then executing a top kill by bullheading heavy wieght kill mud into the annulus could be very dangerous. This could overpressure the shallower strings of casing, specifically the 16" at 11,585' and could result in what is called an underground blowout. That is where the hydrocarbons start flowing from around the wellbore not from the wellbore. This would result in the oil and gas flowing up through the seafloor like a volcano. You think its bad now? If BP does not think this through and end up bursting the 16" theres no telling how bad it could get!

Now that sucks. I'll assume the chances are low but the fact that it's a possibility is news to me. I figured at worst it would just collapse on itself and that'd be it.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. Yes, there has been talk for some time about how...

there is a high risk of making the situation worse by performing the top kill.

The statement in your post is chilling.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Yikes!!

[PinkFloyd]

6. I'm becoming convinced that the only way they will stop this is...

when the oil finally runs dry and there's nothing left to spew out into the gulf.