Top kill procedure to cut off gushing oil well supposedly under way .

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Should open in WMP on any windows system.
 
BP really dropped the ball on this one. They wasted a ton of time on this with bullshit solutions and lies.
 
Yea, there was what seems to be an o-ring/seal that was broken on the BOP but my issue is saying the wellhead got a pressure kick that would have destroyed the BOP, regardless of the seal I assume.

Think of this, 45,000 PSI.... across that 21" diameter pipe.... on the bottom of the BOP. It blew RIGHT threw it and into the riser pipe.

Seal or not, I don't think that BOP had the structure to handle that kind of kick. Specifically with the mud and other items being the agent blowing through the system.

It was like a MASSIVE water jet, cutting right through it.
 
Basically the pressure of the oil/gas pushing up was greater than the weight of the cement plugs and drilling mud on top of it.
 
They are going to be pumping for a bit.

Now, what I want to see is if the boats have a price gauge kind of like a gas pump, for all the mud they are using.
 
They take their time on everything. Doing jumpers for them took forever.... WAY longer than it should take.
 
Well of course, but I'm talking more about the guy in charge of "flipping the switch" or whatever...

I'm in the running for the mud engineer program.
 
If you're such a scientist then you should easily understand my comment about the pressure of the sealant having to be greater than the oil coming out.
 
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