BP will Attempt "Top-Kill" Later this Week
BP aims to start its ’top-kill’ operation at the MC252 well in the Gulf of Mexico later this week. The process, it said, will involve injecting heavy drilling fluids into the well to stem the flow of the estimated at 5000 barrels a day (b/d) of oil, and ultimately kill the well.
“Successfully killing the well may be followed by cement to seal the well. Most of the equipment is on site and preparations continue for this operation, with a view to deployment in a few days,” said a BP statement on 24 May. The Engineer
BP Lead Scientist: Gentlemen its been five weeks and not one thing we have done has worked. We need solutions people! Anyone?.... Someone has to have an idea, come on speak up.... thank you, Johnson what do you got?
Johnson: Well this might sound kind of crazy but hear me out. What if we plug up the pipe so that the oil can't leak out?
BP Lead Scientist: Holy shit! Plug the hole! What a great idea, you are a genius Johnson, someone give that man a raise.
Seriously? I mean there must be something I am missing here because you would think that plugging the damn hole would be the first thing that BP would have tried. At the beginning when they were attempting all these wacky solutions I figured it was because they couldn't seal the pipe without it backing up and causing some worse problem, but apparently BP was just trying to salvage its oil or something.Can we please get on this before Florida starts to look like this?
To be fair they did think about plugging it with Garbage at one point
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