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BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well

Posted by timothy on from the switch-to-healthier-olive-oil dept.

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."

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  1. It's simple really by f3rret · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just nuke the damn thing, it's worked before and surely nothing can go wrong.

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    1. Re:It's simple really by mano.m · · Score: 5, Funny

      Since this was clearly a conspiracy by evil Bond villains who enjoy dipping gulls in crude.

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    2. Re:It's simple really by Man+On+Pink+Corner · · Score: 4, 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.

    3. Re:It's simple really by plopez · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, you've got it all wrong. Plug the leak *with* the BP executives.

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  2. Re:Oil Spill?? by cosm · · Score: 1, Funny

    Not really a spill, but more of an oil "menstruating hemorrhage" by the earth (man induced). Perhaps Tampax can step in, they do have some experience in the absorption arena.

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  3. Re:Oil Spill?? by StormReaver · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, there isn't an oil spill in the Gulf. There is a slight water spill in the Gulf oil pit.

  4. Re:Why is this taking so long? by Anonymous Coward · · 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?

  5. Re:Are there any submariners here? by meringuoid · · Score: 2, Funny
    USS Kamehameha SSBN 642

    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.

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