Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the BP Top Kill Attempt

[profgoose]

The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday. The attempt will use the “top kill” method to try and kill the well. While I have described this in earlier posts, the Unified Command have put out a video animation of the process, and there was an earlier diagram. So I am going to use these, which are simplified explanations, with some additional comments and tie it in to more facts that came out of briefings today, to try and give a more detailed explanation. Here is the animation...

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[slackmaster]

1. Excellent, informative post

K&R

[greencharlie]

2. wow that took 5+ weeks to think of?

pump stuff into hole, hole seals.

[time_has_come]

3. Apparently they've been working on it from the beginning, they say

Working on the design.

[dgibby]

4. Thanks.

Saw this on CNN this am, but didn't catch the whole thing.

K&R!