I never thought I'd be so familiar with the terms "top kill" or "junk shot" and not have them pertain to the NBA playoffs, or internet porn. And yet, today BP is preparing to perform the "top kill" maneuver on its hemorrhaging underwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. If you're the praying kind, this might be a good time to pull out the big one.Here's a link to a New York Times article reporting on today's planned action. From the article:
On Tuesday, engineers guided submarine robots through diagnostic tests in preparation for the top kill, a maneuver in which tubes will inject thousands of pounds of heavy drilling fluids into a five-story-tall stack of pipes to clog the well. A 30,000-horsepower engine on a ship floating above the well will shoot the liquids, known in the oil business as drilling mud. The technique has been used successfully for other spills, notably for stopping the oil flooding out of Kuwaiti oil wells sabotaged by the Iraqi army at the end of the first Persian Gulf war.
And this quote from BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells revealed just how out of touch he is with real human beings:
“It has been done successfully in the past, but it hasn’t been done at this depth,” said Kent Wells, BP’s senior vice president for exploration and production. “We always have to be careful about setting expectations.”
Really? You think we have high hopes at this point? Do you have any idea what it is to be from Louisiana?
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And regarding the 11 deaths, when are criminal charges of "reckless endangerment" and "negligent homicide" going to be filed against those who "cut corners" on the Deepwater Horizon that directly led to the fatal explosion?
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