BP: 'Top kill' fails to stop flow so far (junk shot tonight)

[IndianaGreen]

Source: Washington Post

BP: 'Top kill' fails to stop flow so far

By Joel Achenbach and David A. Fahrenthold

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 27, 2010; 6:39 PM

An attempt at a "top kill" on the leaking gulf oil well has failed to stop the oil billowing out -- at least so far, a BP official said Thursday afternoon. The official said BP would try again later tonight.

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But, Suttles said, oil was still coming out, despite these efforts: "What we do know is that we have not yet stopped the flow."

He said the company would try the procedure again Thursday evening and might add chunkier debris such as rubber balls to the mix in hopes of clogging the leaking pipe. That procedure is known as a "junk shot."



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[Oregone]

1. If the junk shot fails, the only two alternatives are the Boston Steamer and Doggy Punch

[The Magistrate]

2. All This, Sir, is Just Looking Busy While The Relief Wells Are Drilled

That is the only thing known to work....

[Oregone]

5. Which should make one wonder...why its not a requirement to pre-drill em

An exercise that is not impossible or unprecedented internationally.

[The Magistrate]

11. Clearly, Sir, It Should Be

Company whimpering about cost will need to be ignored, of course....

[IndianaGreen]

12. Are you bothered that BP did not tell anyone they stopped Top Kill 20 hours ago?

It bothers me!

[The Magistrate]

17. Compared To the Sum To Date Of Their Lies, Ma'am

It does not make me too much more angry to learn of that.

[cornermouse]

18. So why do the live pictures show it spewing out the orange stuff

that was supposed to be mud instead of the dark gray oil we had before they started?

Seriously, if they stopped 20 hours ago on an effort that wasn't working, shouldn't we see the oil again instead of the orange stuff?

[IndianaGreen]

19. BP admitted there is oil in that mud

The pressure is pushing the mud upwards.

[frylock]

14. are those anything like a dirty garcia?

:shrug:

[wtmusic]

15. Nah, more like a rusty trombone. nt

[frylock]

16. i think your confusing that with a tarnished saxamaphone

[jus_the_facts]

3. yippyfuckingdooda.

:hurts:

[slackmaster]

4. STUPID FUCKING ENGINEERS ALWAYS TRY THE THING THAT WORKS LAST!!!

:argh:

;-)

[BelgianMadCow]

6. we try not to

don't shoot the mud carriers - doing something that has never been done at depth and never on a well that isn't contained (the leaks at the BOP).

[slackmaster]

8. As a techie who occasionally works crisis situations, I have nothing but sympathy and respect

For the engineers who are working the problem.

(Obviously the thing that works is always the last thing you do when addressing an emergency.)

;-)

[BelgianMadCow]

13. okay you had me there

there's smart techies and , well, my kind ;-)

[Oregone]

7. The thing that works will always be the last thing tried

Even if they do it first.

:)

[slackmaster]

9. Yes, even in my business as a systems administrator

;-)

[quaker bill]

10. Because once they try something that works

they stop trying.... You were trying for that old joke, right?

It is like something lost is always in the last place you look for it....

[CHIMO]

20. The Whole Thing

Is smoke and mirrors.

Until they present a schematic and lengths of the system, along with other transport properties, they are just playing around. Get the government involved in demanding the technical aspects and have them publish it. Until then it is all corporate double talk to those who don't realise it.