Can this be right, that BP has stopped trying to plug the oil leak?
Jim Polson for Bloomberg on 1st of June has this to report:
"BP Plc has decided not to attach a second blowout preventer on its leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico and efforts to end the flow are over until the relief wells are finished, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Thad Allen, who spoke at a press conference today."
http://preview.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-01/efforts-to-end-oil-flow-from-bp-s-leaking-well-are-over-coast-guard-says.html
BP has no press release linked on their website, the main page of which is completely devoted to the spill. CNN only has a report of a saw blade being stuck, slowing down work. Nothing on the "cut and cap" operation being abandoned.
In case the CNN link works, have a vid:
What to bring home from that video? They are trying something again, except that if it works only partly (ie. they succeed in cutting but not plugging) we will see a 20% increase in oil flow in to the sea. Even if by today, Wednesday they have fixed the blade problem and started cutting again, it would take until the end of the week to have finished cutting.
The original plug, the "junk shot", "top kill" and now "cut and cap". Anyone still think this might work?
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