BP Announces Failure Of ‘Top Kill,’ New Plan To Plug Well: ‘This Scares Everyone’

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by Frances Martel | 7:15 pm, May 29th, 2010

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After rumors circulated earlier today that BP’s “Top Kill” method of plugging the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico failed, BP COO Doug Suttles hosted a press conference today to make it official that Top Kill did not succeed and that they were moving on to “the next option”: the “lower marine riser package,” which they had been planning “all along.”

Suttles explained the plan post-Top Kill in detail:

“The first job will be to cut and remove the existing riser from the top of the LMRP. At that point, once we’ve made a clean cut, we will be installing the cap… that cap will then be connected via a riser and drill pipe, to the drill ship enterprise, the same rig we used for the riser insertion tool, and this operation should be able to capture most of the oil.”

The only bit of good news they could provide is that the oil relief wells are being drilled ahead of schedule, and that, after flying over the Gulf, Suttles could report that the amount of oil on the surface of the water is diminishing, and the dispersants are working to break down the oil.

Video of the press conference below and (UPDATE) President Obama’s Statement On Failure:

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The_Reasonable_Lib

On the bright side we get more from this guy: http://twitter.com/bpglobalpr
Rusty Shackelford

Remember back when the Walter Reed Hospital story broke and the libs were saying Bush should have brought contractors to fix the problems himself.

Today Obama was shooting hoops in Chicago. Think the Carville is pissed?
Sunnyr

The longer this leak is spewing oil into the Gulf, the lower Comrade Obama’s poll numbers are going to go. He will soon be in Nancy Pelosi territory, single digits. This is his Waterloo and the Sestak mess will be his Watergate. Everyone will see him playing golf and dining on Burritos with the doofus from South of the Border who now has control over our Immigration policies, thanks to the impotent community organizer JERK. I expect the GOP is busy cutting these Video’s as we speak. Go for it, ‘Pubs! Finish him off.
Level Headed American

“Drill Baby Drill!”
Snipzor

Strange how when Obama suggests doing something will destroy his approval ratings, and the exact opposite will do the same. The eternal outrage towards Obama is amazing, because this is totally all of his fault by the way, even though BP is fucking everything up royally. I don’t understand why anyone gives them the time of day.
Bootleghaircut

Bottom line: Obama’s Rassmuesen numbers went up since the his first BP press conference from 42% approval back up to 48%-don”t look for the for the right wing Rasmussen loving news foxies to mention that.

The GOP is now trying to say this is Obama’s “Iranian Hostage Crisis”-too funny.

The GOP is fright wig terrified that BP can’t stop the leak because if Obama has to commit reasources and still fails this will be a sign that there are some issues that not only do not have corporate solutions but no government solution either.

And the defacto end of off shore drillling.

The sad thing the real loser are the people of LA but hey who cares about them when trying to score politcal points against the potus.

Pathetic.