BP Completes Cementing Macondo Oil Well From Top

[jpak]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-08-05/bp-completes-cementing-macondo-oil-well-from-top.html

BP Plc completed cementing its Gulf of Mexico well from the top, moving closer to permanently plugging the source of the world’s biggest accidental offshore oil spill on record.

The company continues to work on a relief well that will probably intercept Macondo in the middle of this month, BP said in an e-mailed statement.

“Everything is progressing well,” Don Van Nieuwenhuise, director of Petroleum Geoscience Programs at the University of Houston, said in an interview today. “They’re being careful and every step they’re taking is just more and more reassuring.”

BP temporarily sealed the well on July 15 through a valve stack placed atop Macondo, stopping a leak that spewed 4.9 million barrels of crude since an April 20 drilling-rig explosion, according to a government estimate.

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Yer but, yer but, yer but.....

Don Van Nieuwenhuise must've been bought off by BP.

[jpak]

2. obviously - this can't be true

yup

[LawnKorn]

3. For what it is worth

The fact that BP was able to do this after adding pluming to the top of the original Blow Out Preventer, show the failure could have been contained early with a properly functioning BOP.

Thank you Dick Cheney for letting the big oil companies operate without Government supervision. Thanks Dick for not having BP put the acoustic actuating valve on the BOP. Thanks Dick for letting big oil outsource the engineering and maintenance of such an important piece of safety equipment be to China.

Thanks Dick.