BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well 365
shmG excerpts from the International Business Times: "Government and BP officials are hopeful after extensive preparations, but are not guaranteeing that a complex attempt early this week to cap an uncontrolled underwater oil spill from a well in the Gulf of Mexico will be successful. The so-called 'top kill' procedure that oil major BP is tentatively scheduled to attempt on Tuesday involves plugging up the well by pumping thick 'drilling mud' and cement into it. While it had been attempted on above-ground wells, it has never been tried at the depths involved with this spill, nearly 5,000 feet below the surface."
It's simple really (Score:5, Funny)
Just nuke the damn thing, it's worked before and surely nothing can go wrong.
Re:Oil Spill?? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Oil Spill?? (Score:5, Funny)
No, there isn't an oil spill in the Gulf. There is a slight water spill in the Gulf oil pit.
Re:It's simple really (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's simple really (Score:5, Funny)
With a 4 out of 5 success result, though I really do wonder what happened when it didn't work.
My understanding is that this question will be answered in a 2 1/2-hour special report on ABC tonight.
Re:Why is this taking so long? (Score:1, Funny)
Contingency plans!? But, deep sea drilling is like, so experimental... It's like landing on the moon! Who needs contingency plans when your doing something so progressive and cool as that?
Re:It's simple really (Score:4, Funny)
No, you've got it all wrong. Plug the leak *with* the BP executives.
Re:Are there any submariners here? (Score:3, Funny)
Cool name for a ship with that kind of firepower. I have a mental image of the captain powering up for five episodes or so before he turns the 'nuke half the planet' key.