U.S. Bp oil disaster, top kill has failed

'Top kill' fails, BP moves on 'to next option' - CNN.com

Who's been following this story? It's kinda hard not to.
Yet it's easy to get put aside since it's been going on for almost a month. Only the last 4 or 5 days has it been at the top of the news again. Due to the supposed fix of the Top kill procedure.

I wonder if thats part of the plan?
Since it may be something that they cant stop, and they knew it all along. This Top Kill procedure was only implemented late last week. Why not much sooner?

It was pretty obvious to most, that it failed on Thursday of last week. When they stopped pumping the slurry mix. BP bought more time, ''2 days''. A obvious attempt to cary them through the weekend. Just for the close of the stock market.

Now what?
Well the most guaranteed way would to drill a relief well. To counter act the pressure. Only way to do that. Would to be to get the Obama administration to lift the off shore drilling freeze, another win for BP and the oil consortium. Even though this procedure would take 2 to 3 months to reach those depths. By that time the well could expel all it's oil and run dry.

All I know is that it's a pretty sad day for the gulf coast states. Some of which are already the poorest states. Now they will loose their fishing industry, their income from the many off shore oil wells, and now their tourist income. No one wants visit contaminated beaches.

I say blast it with a thermal nuclear warhead. To fuse the sandy ocean bottom into a huge glass plug:eg:

EASY ON THE THERMAL NUCLEAR DEVICE!!!! dammm and kill all living creatures in the gulf/atlantic in one shot..lol yahhh its a mess for tourism for sure...

The whole mess saddens me to no end.

it's a nightmare, I can't talk about it.

sorry had my channel on TNT! but hey Lakers 67-53 cheer up

sandidgepatrick said:

EASY ON THE THERMAL NUCLEAR DEVICE!!!! dammm and kill all living creatures in the gulf/atlantic in one shot...

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They are all dying anyway.
Fish can't breathe in oil.

What upsets me the most, is that BP new it was gonna happen, did nothing to help prevent it, and now isnt fixing it right, and in the end, they will still be a mult-trillion $$ company still doing the same old thing.......

I'm down here near the heart of it. the NO area is getting the worst of it. There are still plenty of people going to the beaches here. The seafood industry here seems to be doing fine as far as I can tell. I know it isn't doing as well by NO though. The problem is that they haven't found a good quick fix yet. The only surefire way to fix it is to drill a relief well. That's underway but can take a few months.

Not only did they know it was going to happen, but their failsafe didn't even have any batteries in it and the blade in it wouldn't have even made it through the pipe! It's just like Standard Oil all over again, Big Oil is doing whatever it wants, and the government is just watching. They need to impose a fee of $750,000 a day for every day since the Deepwater Horizon exploded and a $1,000,000 a day fine until it's fixed. This may be excessive but I'm tired of seeing huge companies do whatever they want just because they can.

Make those BP exec. pricks go swimming in it till they frigging die!:gun::gun:

Ya..
I figured it didnt werk when i looked at the "live" cam and it was still gushing..
But now they changed the cam view, so who knows what we are seeing vs. what is actually happening. it doesn't look so bad from this angle. thats probably why they changed it.

"It is outrageous that BP would kill the video feed for the top kill. This BP blackout will obscure a vital moment in this disaster," said Rep. Markey, who chairs the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming and the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the Energy and Commerce Committee. "After more than a month of spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico, BP is essentially saying to the American people the solution will not be televised."

"No one wants to interfere with the operations during the top kill. With those preparations mostly done, now the world should see whether or not this strategy works, and we should see it in real time," said Rep. Markey.

Rep. Markey yesterday had also asked BP to provide all 12 available feeds from the accident site, and yesterday released a YouTube video showing the differences between the one feed the public has been allowed to see and the 12 possible feeds available to BP."
:wtf:

sandidgepatrick said:

EASY ON THE THERMAL NUCLEAR DEVICE!!!! dammm and kill all living creatures in the gulf/atlantic in one shot..lol yahhh its a mess for tourism for sure...

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A compressed explosive bomb can have almost the same results, underwater, without radiations .....

But, as far as i've understood from news, they are not trying to close the oil pit, they are trying to save it for later use ..... the news was talking about another trial as "cutting the broken tube at the base, and add a new valve on it", this morning .....

What would you guys have them do to fix it? They're trying every solution they know how to do right now. It's not like a diver can just hop down there and turn off a valve. If you have any suggestions, I'm all ears. This is a worst case scenario, there are no solutions for this scenario, because all the multiple fail-safes that should have prevented this situation failed. All the safety features are in blowout prevention. Since this blowout wasn't prevented, there are no strategies for this scenario in water this deep.

And "they knew it was going to happen?" Please, gimme a break. They didn't know it was going to happen, they didn't intentionally let it happen. you act like BP wanted this to happen. Of course BP didn't want it to happen, and of course they would have prevented it if they could have.

Is it a horrible accident? Absolutely. But a couple of you sound like BP did it on purpose, which is most decidedly NOT the case.

They may not have done it on purpose, but the main failsafe device on the Deepwater Horizon was in a state of disrepair, and there's no excuse for it being so. The cutting of the pipe and adding a new valve is the best option, and they should have been working on that solution since day one, instead of trying to pump mud into it or putting a concrete cap on it (although, I will admit, it was a good idea in theory, but then again so was communism). I'm not saying that BP wanted it to happen or knew it was, but there should have been a few more failsafes on board and a contingency plan, or six.

They've been working on every solution they can think of, in parallel, since day one. It's not like they try one thing and then go back to the drawing board. They have people working on every solution they can think of all the time, and trying each one they can as it becomes ready.

Maybe they should just weld it shut with lasers but on a serious note, we can point fingers and deal with BP later, right now, every resource available should be focused on just stopping the worst oil spill in US history.

This is really turning into an epic disaster. Pretty much Obama's Katrina. Really it shouldn't have even happened. The whole thing is just another case of corporate greed and putting safety second.