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Comments on: Good News? https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:02:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52902 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:02:25 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52902 In reply to Elayne Riggs.

That was certainly the impression we got down here on the Coast – it was about capturing and selling oil, not capping the well.

]]> By: Elayne Riggs https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52896 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 11:16:12 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52896 I thought it was generally understood that they didn’t do this months ago because it was never their intention to stop the flow, only to recover as much oil as possible for themselves (i.e., divert it) rather than letting the Gulf have it.

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52883 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:49:53 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52883 You are probably on to something with the connection to the relief well, especially if they suspected that the well integrity was already compromised. That’s why I fully expect them to connect hoses and start collecting again, to save the capability of stopping the flow for the mud from the relief well.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52873 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:37:20 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52873 Why didn’t they do this months ago? Because, uhm… oh yeah. Hurricane season. They wanted it closed in by hurricane season. And because of the relief well, they wanted things pressurized for the relief well, so that the mud being pumped in via the relief well didn’t just flow out the top of the wellhead. But didn’t want to do it until they had to, in case the BOP decided to just blow off the top of the casing like a rocket.

At least, that’s the only possible reasons I can think of. They may not make perfect sense, but neither does anything else BP has done regarding this well :(.

– Badtux the Oil Penguin

]]> By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52868 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:16:43 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52868 In reply to JuanitaM.

It’s the only good news we’ve had in months, so we’ll take what we can get. We still have 100 million gallons, or more, of crude in the Gulf, so the damage continues, but at least we seem to have found the tunnel, so the light can come later.

]]> By: JuanitaM https://whynow.dumka.us/2010/07/15/good-news-12/comment-page-1/#comment-52866 Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:22:58 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=15555#comment-52866 Yayyy! It’s hard to get carried away with excitement after all the damage that’s been done but, hey, it’s a first step.

Crossing my fingers that this thing holds. Good luck down there!

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