BP to try several oil leak options, none certain

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N23234388.htm

BP will press ahead with a series of short-term options, including one this week, to try to plug its gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well, and these will be attempted before it completes an expected relief well in August, BP Managing Director Bob Dudley said on Sunday.

"We will keep trying, we will not wait until August," Dudley told CNN's "State of the Union".

But he added: "There is no certainty at these kind of depths".

BP engineers would attempt a "top kill" - pumping heavy fluids into the ruptured well to shut it off - in an operation that would begin late Tuesday or early Wednesday, he said.

[charlesg]

1. Top kill will be followed by death chop. Maybe side kick

Yep, more high-tech than 'Apollo 13'. Will BP make a epic movie out of this?

[Upton]

2. .I think these efforts are as much for show as anything else.

I don't expect it to work.

[BeFree]

3. It should work

I expect that it will work.

Are you just being negative, or do you hope it fails?

I'm getting the idea that some people here want to see the oil keep flowing at
least until August. Are you one of them? Or do you want to see the flow stop?

[Upton]

4. Sorry..but I don't trust BP..

I see no reason why anybody should. I wish I could be as optimistic as you about this "top kill" approach. Next you'll be claiming golf balls should do the trick.

Btw, I'd be very surprise if anyone around here actually wants to see the oil to keep flowing. Are insults all you have?

[Codeine]

5. Why would anybody want the oil to keep flowing?

That's insane. Don't attribute that sort of evil to other DUers just because they disagree with you.

[Upton]

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