they have capped it (for now)

[StackerKen]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65O5TA20100713

http://www.reuters.com/resources/r/?m=02&d=20100713&t=2&i=153207016&w=300&fh=300&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=2010-07-13T060630Z_01_BTRE66C0GYY00_RTROPTP_0_OIL-SPILL


http://news.yahoo.com/video/business-15749628/bp-installs-gulf-well-cap-20840562

[ximmy]

don't let these lying devil-heads fool you... nothing is stopped... might as well play a sci-fi movie for the commoners

[gunDriller]

i appreciate the link Ken, but BP has zero credibility at this point.

they might as well say, "it's just a cold-sore" ... OK well maybe we won't go with the VD metaphor.

it'll be interesting to see what Matt Simmons or some independent scientists say.

[StackerKen]

From another site I go to.


Quote:
Originally Posted by Papaken
I get the feeling that a lot of folks will be bummed out when and if this thing is brought under control.

It seems that some folks love a good disaster and don't want it to end.


i think your right. i fully expect that some will go on insisting that death and doom are just around the corner, we are all being lied to, etc.etc. months after the well is sealed off.

Yep

[cedarchopper]

I hope to God they get this ecological disaster stopped before the Gulf and all the creatures are destroyed. No matter what happens, this disaster will have reverberating consequences for decades...if it isn't stopped, no one alive now will ever see the Gulf as it was.

[DMac]

Ken,

Do you think the cap has stopped the oil from coming out?

[StackerKen]

Ken,

Do you think the cap has stopped the oil from coming out?


No Mac. I realize that the cap is not the solution and may not even work

Im not sure what to think anymore.

I do think they will stop it though. eventually

My gut tells me all of this was a false flag so they could stop all deep water off shore drilling.

But I don't know.

[oldmansmith]

My gut tells me all of this was a false flag so they could stop all deep water off shore drilling.

But I don't know.


I agree, and I sure don't know either. But it sure looks like the needed push for crap and trade and global carbon tax.

[StackerKen]

My gut tells me all of this was a false flag so they could stop all deep water off shore drilling.

But I don't know.


I agree, and I sure don't know either. But it sure looks like the needed push for crap and trade and global carbon tax.



Oh yeah that too.

[1970 silver art]

Ken,

Do you think the cap has stopped the oil from coming out?


No Mac. I realize that the cap is not the solution and may not even work

Im not sure what to think anymore.

I do think they will stop it though. eventually

My gut tells me all of this was a false flag so they could stop all deep water off shore drilling.

But I don't know.


My gut feeling tells me that the relief wells may not be the solution but this is one time that I want my gut feeling to be wrong on this. I do not even believe BP. Like someone has said, they lost all credibility.

[platinumdude]

the real test on this thing is the pressure test, it will tell them whether or not this thing is leaking from below.

[platinumdude]

Gulf gusher to keep flowing as cap test delayed

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100714/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AowehHeHSms8EUzJjdgmVF6s0NU E;_ylu=X3oDMTNoZzI0dDJnBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNzE0L3V zX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb 3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9 yeQRzbGsDZ3VsZmd1c2hlcnRv

NEW ORLEANS – A pivotal moment in the Gulf oil crisis hit an unexpected snag Tuesday evening when officials announced they needed more time before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea.

BP and federal officials did not say what prompted the decision or when the testing would begin on a new, tighter-fitting cap it had just installed on the blown-out well. The oil giant had been scheduled to start slowly shutting off valves on the 75-ton cap, aiming to stop the flow of oil for the first time in three months.

It seemed BP was on track to start the test Tuesday afternoon. The cap, lowered over the blown-out well Monday night, is designed to be a temporary fix until the well is plugged underground.

A series of methodical, preliminary steps were completed before progress stalled. Engineers spent hours on a seismic survey, creating a map of the rock under the sea floor to spot potential dangers, like gas pockets. It also provides a baseline to compare with later surveys during and after the test to see if the pressure on the well is causing underground problems.

An unstable area around the wellbore could create bigger problems if the leak continued elsewhere in the well after the cap valves were shut, experts said.

"It's an incredibly big concern," said Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Professional Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston. "They need to get a scan of where things are, that way when they do pressure testing, they know to look out for ruptures or changes."

It was unclear whether there was something in the results of the mapping that prompted officials to delay. Earlier, BP Vice President Kent Wells said he hadn't heard what the results were, but he felt "comfortable that they were good."

National Incident Commander Thad Allen met with the federal energy secretary and the head of the U.S. Geological Survey as well as BP officials and other scientists after the mapping was done.

"As a result of these discussions, we decided that the process may benefit from additional analysis," Allen said in a statement. He didn't specify what type of analysis would be done, but said work would continue until Wednesday.

Assuming BP gets the green light to do the cap testing after the extra analysis is finished, engineers can finally begin to shut the openings in the 75-ton metal stack of pipes and valves gradually, one at a time, while watching pressure gauges to see if the cap holds or any new leaks erupt. (More at link)

[Phoenix]

<s>if it isn't stopped,</s> no one alive now will ever see the Gulf as it was.


Even if they do get it stopped...

[Phoenix]

A pivotal moment in the Gulf oil crisis hit an unexpected snag Tuesday evening when officials announced they needed more time before they could begin choking off the geyser of crude at the bottom of the sea.


Didn't the same thing happen with the "Top Dome"? "We think it worked...well, we have to do more tests...we won't know until tomorrow...we might know tomorrow...oh, well, uh, it didn't work..."

[oldmansmith]

It sure does seem that BP and the Goobermint have been jerking our chains for quite a while.

[Large Sarge]

I said it awhile back, I will state it one more time

one way to poison people, and not have them evacuate (certainly fits in with global depopulation agenda), is to keep putting out some new solution every 4-6 weeks, after the last one failed

this way the averag person, being slowly poisoned, thinks "only a couple more weeks till it is fixed, I can hang on for that long"

and take down all the air monitoring stations in the region

they have known since almost day 1 a nuke was the only option, and that there is a 100foot gaping crater spewing oil, methane, hydrogen sulfide, etc and yet they focus on a 21 inch pipe (live video links, capping procedures, pumping mud into it, etc)

like Matt Simmons said "they are focussed on the mouse, the elephant is behind them"

[1970 silver art]

It sure does seem that BP and the Goobermint have been jerking our chains for quite a while.


I think that they have been jerking our chains for the last 84 days (as of Tuesday). I am going to try very hard to be optimistic here but my gut tells me that they will stop the oil leak.......................on day 99.

Oh BTW, I like Large Sarge's optimism on the oil spill. :sarc: :sarc: :sarc: :sarc: :sarc:

[gunDriller]

as far as i can tell from the official news, they are doing the test before the test on a fix/ plug that might work.

but ... what about the other holes that are emitting oil ?