I truly hope that common sense prevails here and that deep water drilling is suspended. Obviously oil companies do not have ways of adequately dealing with emergencies and the price for this glaring inadequacy is far too costly.
CS Monitor: From 'static kill' to 'bottom kill’: next steps in Gulf oil spill
This week BP and Coast Guard officials are preparing what they call a “bottom kill” – the permanent sealing of the runaway Macondo well through one of the two relief wells drilled 13,000 feet below the seafloor. According to Allen, BP will deposit through the relief well a combination of drilling mud, cement, liquids, and nitrogen to stop the flow of oil – perhaps as early as Aug. 7.
That operation will come after “static kill,” which has a tentative start date of next Monday. Static kill would deposit the same mixture of materials into the top of the well.
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