"BP's ruptured oil well leaking at top, seepage about two miles away" - Gibbs

[DMac]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38304846/


WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says BP's ruptured oil well is leaking at the top, along with seepage about two miles away.

Robert Gibbs also says officials are monitoring bubbles that can be seen on an underwater camera.

Leaks could mean the cap on the well has to be opened to prevent oil and gas from escaping elsewhere.

The mechanical cap on the well stopped the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday.

[Gaillo]

WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says BP's ruptured oil well is leaking at the top, along with seepage about two miles away.

Told you all that the latest duct-tape job wouldn't last past Monday! ;)

[uranian]

funny things, words...water seeping through rock:

http://www.ianchadwick.com/tequila/images/water_seep.jpg

BP's seeping oil:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyjqFPnkRMQ

[I am me, I am free]

They just continue to fuck it up more and more.

The 'best and the brightest' are anything but.

This shit has to be intentional.

[Gaillo]

They just continue to f*ck it up more and more.

The 'best and the brightest' are anything but.

This sh*t has to be intentional.


Indeed!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N09r5IeRR-8

[Ponce]

I read where BP says that the leak a mile away is not their problem haahahahahahahah... an "act" of God?

[the riot act]

Well I'm respectfully not buying the "intentional" aspect of this disaster. The "stupidty/greed" part hell yeah!

Gobbet over at the Drum says something that caught my eye.

They are working so hard to convince the public that the government is riding herd on BP, but the actual effect is to convince the public that everything is still going wrong, when it's probably going quite well.

All hail O'bambi the Savior, and Corporation killer! Soon we will be back to the 1600's using whale oil oops can't do that either.

And allow me to add this comment by syncro

This is an excellent point, one Rockman has made before. Basically, BP "sh*t the bed." They ruined it for everyone, and they did so for the lamest of reasons, or in the lamest of ways.

Rogue operators are a danger to industry as much as they are to everyone else, and the record is certainly strong enough to suggest that BP may indeed have been a rogue-type operator, by design, not by accident. It is one of the issues Obama's task force will be looking at.

[the riot act]

Oh boy here we go...........

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65O5TA20100719

REUTERS
By Kristen Hays and Tom Bergin
HOUSTON/LONDON | Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:49pm EDT

HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Energy giant BP Plc said on Monday that seepage near its Gulf of Mexico well was unrelated to the massive oil leak that has at least temporarily been capped.

BP shares, which had dropped more than 6 percent after engineers detected seepage on the floor of the Gulf after the well was capped on Thursday, recovered in late trade on the news. They were down 3.9 percent in late afternoon trading in New York.

BP spokesman Mark Proegler told Reuters: "Scientists have concluded that the seep was naturally occurring."

Investors had feared that seepage could signal that the April 20 blowout that preceded the leak damaged the wellbore, which could allow oil and gas to leak out the sides and possibly breach the seabed.

Officials are monitoring the pressure in the well to gauge whether it is structurally sound. An intact well would help when a relief well intercepts and tries to plug the leak, but damage could complicate that effort.

White House energy adviser Carol Browner told CBS's "The Early Show" the seepage was found less than two miles (three km) from the well.

The worst oil spill in U.S. history has caused an economic and environmental disaster in five states along the Gulf Coast, hurt President Barack Obama's approval ratings and complicated traditionally close ties with Britain.

BP said in a statement that it had spent $3.95 billion so far on efforts to tackle the well and cleanup the millions of barrels of spilled oil.

The explosion that led to the spill and a three-month long effort to plug the leak and clean up the oil has impacted finances of BP, which has begun canvassing shareholders about a restructuring that could include a breakup of its businesses, the Sunday Times reported.

BP's talks to sell half its stake in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay oil field to Apache Corp, which had stalled over the weekend, were back on, CNBC reported.

[Libertytree]

Here's the problem though, what is being talked about in this thread so far are the pre disaster aspects ie intentional, stupidity, greed. Me thinks the better picture is painted from what has happened since the spill occurred and what continues to unfold.

[Neuro]

I read where BP says that the leak a mile away is not their problem haahahahahahahah... an "act" of God?
Makes perfect sense for them to claim that at this point, they have pretty much spent their good-will they had in the past anyway, and from a moral standpoint there is no reason to believe that anything BP does now will make the situation better. When the oil starts gushin several kilometers awaythe hope of ever stopping this monster from a human standpoint is over and out.

But apart from this my opinion is that BP should be destroyed!

[the riot act]

Makes perfect sense for them to claim that at this point, they have pretty much spent their good-will they had in the past anyway, and from a moral standpoint there is no reason to believe that anything BP does now will make the situation better. When the oil starts gushin several kilometers awaythe hope of ever stopping this monster from a human standpoint is over and out.

But apart from this my opinion is that BP should be destroyed!


Well at least broken up into smaller more manageable pieces. But just like Goldman Sux, they are the goobs main source of fuel for the on gowing wars.

Are they to big to fail? We will probably seen within the next 6 months.

[uranian]

REUTERS
By Kristen Hays and Tom Bergin
HOUSTON/LONDON | Mon Jul 19, 2010 4:49pm EDT

HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) - Energy giant BP Plc said on Monday you are all fucking morons who will believe any shit we make up!


(fixed it for ya)

[Serpo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcECdwx1XFs&feature=player_embedded#at=99

[crazychicken]

WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says BP's ruptured oil well is leaking at the top, along with seepage about two miles away.

Told you all that the latest duct-tape job wouldn't last past Monday! ;)


Two thumbs up for the accurate prediction.

CC

[1970 silver art]

WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says BP's ruptured oil well is leaking at the top, along with seepage about two miles away.

Told you all that the latest duct-tape job wouldn't last past Monday! ;)


+1 Karma for nailing that one. It is unfortunate that your prediction was right but at the same time I was not too surprised that there would be other leaks. This is just a big fiasco on a lot of fronts and that it is very sad especially for the people who live and work in the gulf coast area. We are all paying for this one way or the other.

[the riot act]

WASHINGTON — A White House spokesman says BP's ruptured oil well is leaking at the top, along with seepage about two miles away.

Told you all that the latest duct-tape job wouldn't last past Monday! ;)


Two thumbs up for the accurate prediction.

CC


Gaillo, did you see that leak?

http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:30948.asx