re: #459 reine.de.tout

BP claims they are looking at all “methods” and “suggestions”.

I think BP is full of crap.
I don’t think we’ve got the full story.

I have to wonder why they didn’t go ahead and put another BOP on top of the one out there, as I heard was being considered, instead of doing a procedure requiring a ship to be there, which will have to get out of the way if there’s a storm (leaving ALL the oil to spew again into the water).

They had prepped a second BOP that was being used on one of the two relief wells, and thus put the relief well on hold. They were planning to try to hot stab it after mud kill failed, but then abandoned the plan and restarted the relief well. My understanding is that there were enough worrying indications from the mud kill attempt to cause them to fear a much larger blow out. Thus the second BOP has been ruled out.