The Oil Drum: Deepwater Oil Spill - Top Kill Update, Restarting the Mud, and Comment Thread

[profgoose]

Here's the latest "live" thread with insights from the engineers and geos as well as streaming video: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6520

Relevant links to top kill procedure (scroll to comments in each, they're very good.)

Deepwater Oil Spill - Permissions and Concerns about Top Kill
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6513

Deep Water Spill - Waiting for Top Kill (more updated tech)
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6509

The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill - the Top Kill Attempt (the technical aspect of what just happened)
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6505

The Gulf Deepwater Oil Spill, barriers, flow rates, and top kill
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6501

[ShortnFiery]

1. Thanks for the site references. eom

[backscatter712]

2. Been watching that site - very good site.

Oops, it's down right now - looks like all the traffic finally killed it... :(

[profgoose]

3. nope, just a cache fail. we're back. :)

[flamingdem]

5. It's slow because of traffic and it's loading a live camera but it works nt

[nenagh]

4. Thank you, profgoose..

Such an excellent site..

Your calm professionals have fielded so many angst filled questions and have given of their time to explain the intricacies of oil drilling and assess, in easy terms, why certain ideas for stopping the flow are not feasible...

Thanks again..

[amborin]

6. thanks for posting this! interesting that some experts think TK only has 1% chance of success;

let's hope it works, but maybe it's all towards the appearance of doing something, until the relief well(s) is ready

[SidDithers]

7. An observation about Oil Drum from one of our DU mods...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8436021&mesg_id=8436137

At this time, I think the oildrum has become an open forum, a quick look at the membership in that thread showed that for the four names I checked, only one of them had been on the forum more than 2 days. The site is now filled with armchair pundits and the sites popularity as a source has now proved its undoing...

Sid

[amborin]

8. not totally accurate, though, as one can tell who's a veteran poster & who's a newbie