Cobb Posted May 30, 2010 Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 CNN.com Robert, Louisiana (CNN) -- Three attempts to pump mud and 16 tries to stuff solid material into a breached Gulf of Mexico oil well failed to stop the flow, top BP executives said Saturday, and engineers and executives with the oil giant have decided to "move on to the next option." That option: Place a custom-built cap to fit over the "lower marine riser package," BP chief operation officer Doug Suttles said. BP crews were already at work Saturday to ready the materials for that option, he said. Suttles said three separate pumping efforts and 30,000 barrels of mud -- along with what chief executive officer Tony Hayward described as "16 different bridging material shots" -- just didn't do the trick. "We have not been able to stop the flow," a somber Suttles told reporters. " ... Repeated pumping, we don't believe, will achieve success, so we will move on to the next option."Man, it's getting ugly now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren2ThaG Posted May 30, 2010 Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 Buy solar stocks, and quick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobb Posted May 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 I'm just curious as to how many more "options" they have left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx. Posted May 30, 2010 Report Share Posted May 30, 2010 Buy solar stocks, and quick.lol explain.. we should just nuke it, or let me stick my boner in that hole, I would love to be a hero. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warren2ThaG Posted May 31, 2010 Report Share Posted May 31, 2010 lol explain.. we should just nuke it, or let me stick my boner in that hole, I would love to be a hero. Conspiracy Groupies: Did big oil conspire to create the largest oil spill in history while shorting oil stocks?Did the CIA work with the Navy to destroy the horizon drilling platform to insure an alt-energy boom? Non-Conspiracy Groupies: 1 Big oil is distracted from running disinformation propaganda against new energy.2 Hurricanes oil and tar will automatically re-pave many roads in bad repair.3 Delapitated homes in the gulf will have their roofs re-tarred for free.4 Auto industry will recover as thousands of cars will be destroyed with tar raining from the sky.5 You won't have to bring charcoal to the beach for the grill.6 The homeless will find cheap housing with an ocean view for the price of pop cans.7 Seafood will finally be more expensive than gold.8 Someone will have to ask if the 100 billion in subsidies went for a good cause.9 It will finally be permissible to dump oil in the water ways because the Govt will let the biggest polluter go signaling a new precedence.10 BP will have their name changed from British Petroleum to Biggest Pollute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HipHopHead Posted May 31, 2010 Report Share Posted May 31, 2010 Who cares anymore, we can only blame ourselves. We should have been off the oil tit in the 80's... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xx. Posted May 31, 2010 Report Share Posted May 31, 2010 Who cares anymore, we can only blame ourselves. We should have been off the oil tit in the 80's...Who cares? Damn for an expert and the smartest man ever you're not really that smart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HipHopHead Posted May 31, 2010 Report Share Posted May 31, 2010 Who cares? Damn for an expert and the smartest man ever you're not really that smart.I was referring to the guys post above me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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