Gulf oil spill: 'Top kill' effort to seal well delayed until at least Tuesday

Officials of oil giant BP said Friday that it will likely be at least Tuesday before engineers can attempt to plug the blown-out wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico by shooting heavy fluids into it. 

Three ultra-deepwater rigs and other equipment are at the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20. They're preparing for a delicate procedure called a “top kill” that BP hopes will stop the flow of oil from the well.

Crews will pump in heavy drilling mud, which is a thick, viscous fluid that's twice the density of water. It is hoped that will stop the oil; if it does, then they'll use concrete to keep more from gushing out.

BP's Doug Suttles says this hasn't been tried 5,000 feet underwater before, so engineers want to make sure everything is just right.

-- Associated Press

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[Just ME in T]

What happens to the inside of the Earth when oil and natural gas is extracted? Often times this mining occurs deep under the ocean floor, as in the case with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig in the Gulf of Mexico. In September 2009, the rig drilled the deepest oil well in history at a vertical depth of 35,050 feet (10,683.2 m) and measured depth of 35,055 feet (10,685 m).

'Nature abhors a vacuum'. So is there further danger coming our way?

http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/05/does-bps-gulf-gusher-contribute-to.html

[Michelle]

Boycotting BP was a success-it has been mentioned as a factor in several publications a a reason for the class action lawsuit by BP shareholders to get BP to hold to higher environmental standards.

July 4th, 2010 is INDEPENDENCE DAY. A call not to gas up at any pump anywhere, a moment of consumer silence in respect for the life in the Gulf.
After all, if you wiki Chevron, you'll see their settlement could run as high as $28 B for the Amazon. Wiki Shell and Nigeria. Exxon is still running their recompensation through the court system for the Valdez.

It's time to get our power not from the underworld (coal and oil), or from destruction (fission) but from our higher sources of energy. Look up! Let's get our power from the light. And at night, from the Earth's prana-wind. Land based-wind towers. Mountaintop wind towers generate most of THEIR electricity at night.

Holding on to the combustion engine cause there's still oil is like holding on to the steam engine cause there's still water.
Ain't no spaceships zipping through solar systems on gasoline, lol.
Solar wind though...
Hawaii has set out to open 50,000 ev charging stations powered by wind by 2012.

[GordonSantaMonica]

What happened to the tested backup proceedures in case a major disaster occured. You oil derrick people should take a look at the safety tests and training our navy people go through to prepare for disasters on Subs.
Why the Oil Spills could have been prevented. Any idiot could have projected the effects on the States touching the Gulf. They would have said "oh .... yes ... any spills could destroy the Gulf Coast lines of the States residing on the Gulf. The politicians turned their heads and their eyes saw huge amounts of dollars. The people saw huge amounts of dollars ... jobs. Greed wins out again.
Congratulations America. By the way I am an environmentalist. I believe that whatever we take from Mother Earth we must do so respectfully. In the Gulf we were Greedy and Mother Earth slapped us.

Don’t worry citizens of the United States ... The Republicans will fight against the EPA, FDA, and any other regulatory agency that protects "We The People of the United States of America".

In fact if the Republicans and the Neo-Cons put their heads any further into the sand they will come up somewhere around China. :LOL LOL LOL.

By the way have you checked out Fox and the spinners? They are beginning to pull their heads out of the sand. They finally admit this is a “Disaster”. They do have some disclaimers however ... if the government regulates the oil industry the costs of gasoline and other oil related products will go “WAY” up. Fox and the Neo-Cons are also blaming the PRESIDENT and his administration for not reacting fast enough … you know they were sitting on their hands.

According to a news article there was a closed door meeting where most of the handful of congressional Democrats and Republicans who met with representatives from BP, Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton in a closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill walked away unimpressed. A source who attended the meeting said that the companies' representatives had a "deer in headlights" look and that the tenor of the conversation was that the firms "are attempting to solve a problem which they have never had to solve before at this depth…at this scope of disaster. They essentially said as much."

Give me a break Fox. Give me a break BP Transocean Ltd. and Halliburton. The Ocean environment is being destroyed. Ocean related industries are being destroyed. That is ok for Fox spinner and the rest of these fools. They are still working and making enough money to go hide from environmental destruction ... so they hope.

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[Kathie Carr]

BP is trying to save the oil and the well, not stop the leak. Forget the people, forget the fishing and recreation industries, forget the endangered species, they just want to save the oil and keep drilling.

And why are we so attached to 100 year old technology like the internal combustion engine. Its an antique.

[Well...]

Hm. They can drill a hole and set a pipe on top, from hole to surface. Now when the pipe breaks at undersea ground level, they are not able to patch the pipe back on?

BP did not have a backup plan. If they had their act together, the break would have been capped or repaired and they would be selling this oil rather than killing the LA shrimp beds.

[DWIGHTBAKER]

BP TOP KILL band aid at best the real cure is here

BP has sucked many in our Federal Government in as co-stewards in this mess. Now the smirks from many of the Jerks in BP have got folks in the USA fuming. And the trickle down effect has finally got those in DC wondering what could be next? Maybe the loss of their jobs??????

Look at this plan pass it around to those in Oil and Gas for real then get some buy in and make BP stop the oil and gas before it is too late.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

To all concerned about our future:
The following has been sent along to BP without a response. Yet today BP is stating they will try to do a similar thing but not in an oil field way of doing. That does not surprise me they have been doing things left handed and sideways since all this began.

I suggest for All that can --- pass this along to BP stressing on them to do the right thing this time ‘To stop the oil and gas from flowing into our Gulf of Mexico’.

What is at stake? Bret Hume FOX NEWS spin master said he could see No Oil. Got to watch the mainstream media propaganda spin masters they get their orders from the top of the heap.
View Bret Hume on FOX NEWS http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/849.html

Some might say Just take the scoundrels to court--- Which one and What day and When will they pay? If you think that way may you set back and think about who we are up against “The biggest buck folks in the human history, the Rockefellers and Rothschild’s” --- then think along those lines asking “Are we really sovereign people”?

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Reuters,

The operators of Reuters must pass this along to the Rothschild’s who own Reuters as soon as possible. The games that some are playing at BP will in the end cause a ruckus too hard to mend. I proposed this plan a week ago the oil and gas could have been stopped by now. Yet the mum boo jumbo way this crisis is being handled in the USA is a fault of guilt’s that will go back and keep going back until trials are held and many responsible for the lacks found in their actions will put them in jails.
Many have not a clue yet I do.

To whom it must concern at BP
By Dwight Baker
May 16, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

SUBJECT; Build install Overshot for riser

PURPOSE; Kill the well

Should I have enough facts about the conditions where you are working, consider this: get a design ‘You have all the dimensions’ then get an overshot made to fit the top flange looking up where the riser was affixed.

Get 5,000 feet of heavy weight 7” or better casing loaded on board for the overshot to be attached.

The casing string should be arranged as this:
1. On the bottom the overshot
2. Next up 3 or more high pressure check valves to resist the flow of gas and fluids up to the rig installing.
3. Next install 1 or more high-pressure pump out plugs to begin unloading the loss circulation material and heavy weight mud whatever that might be.
4. When installing the casing fill the casing as needed with loss circulation material and heavy weight mud as best designed.
5. Design a cut off charge to be used to separate the drill string from the riser with intent to have it fall away out of the overshot to be installed.

6. Use the roves to set the charge off at the best time after installation of overshot is underway. Should it not fall away as expected then a grapple can be used to pull out of the way.
7. After setting the overshot around the top flange the rubber goods installed will compress.
8. Install cementing plugs as needed and begin pumping as needed.
9. I believe the entire amounts of fluids and solids will go quickly into all exit points at this time.
10. The cement should be pumped down to the setting ring.
11. Should it not go down then close in ---- let set until cement has had time to dry.
12. After that time ----to release the rig a charge could be set at the depth where cement is in the setting casing --- the remainder can be pulled up and hopefully the nightmare will be ended.
GOOD LUCK

I have high hopes that the BOP SUB SEA WELL CONTROL SYSTEM IS STILL UP RIGHT.

Now, this is a good idea much better than the current plan that is NOT SANE or SOUND AT ALL ----NOW my thoughts and ideas are worthy of payment, please advise when we can come to terms. Dwight Baker PO BOX 7065 Eagle Pass Texas, 78852 tel 830-773-1077 Retired Oil and Gas Engineer with USA PATENTS high-pressure gates valves. Banking Universal Commercial Code number E67344656 My genetic roots go back to J.D. Rockefeller.

[Confused]

"... so engineers want to make sure everything is just right."

Because everything has been "just right" up to now?

[DWIGHTBAKER]

BP top kill is not the cure it is at best a band aid
A one-way conversation is not allowed on my turf, how about on yours?
By Dwight Baker
May 20, 2010
Dbaker007@stx.rr.com

Eagles Eye View Aiming at Issues for We the People Advocates

I think the Brits have forgotten that we sent them packing some years back. Now those same Brits are on our turf using BP as their front to rob us blind again. While doing so they triggered the worst human caused tragedy in history. Worse than anything you can think or state, if not so --- prove that statement wrong.

The aloofness of their talk should tell anyone in Oil and Gas circles of work --- that their con has finally run out---their faults are too many to count--- and their hopes to find the bitter end of stopping the flow of oil and gas is alluding them. For in their self styled denial ‘led by media propagandist’ they continue to shroud themselves around with political and military folks who do not have a clue WHAT WHEN AND HOW to do.

For some time professional men and women who had ideas of how to bring a sudden cure to BP problems --- were offered a way of passing along their opinions. Yet many of us have found out that was just another con. BP had no intention of putting forth any human mechanical engineering energy and money to help them amass the Oil and Gas folks with intellect needed to bring a resolve to their problems. So from all around the earth today --- good will from many oil and gas experts who offered help has been filed away in drawer 13.

But a more serious infringement on our rights as co-owners of our natural resources exist --- found out by me today. The numerous updates that I have been receiving by BP I had until today been able to reply to sender then send along my ideas of that day about what was transpiring. But not so today, now my messages and I suppose many others is being returned as denied access.

Thus BP has created an island ---- they are apart from US We the People. Our natural resources are We the People not theirs or the Political bosses who serve us. Can you see the hypocrisy?

I am a sovereign free man with good ideas maybe the best of How to fix the BP BIG PROBLEM. I have equal rights of ownership to all the Natural Resources in our Great America. I care deeply about all those folks My fellow Americans living around the Gulf and the natural re-occurring resources -- The fish shrimp and all that lives in those waters and the pristine lands needed for all of those creatures to multiply and flourish and with that said --- I refuse to be treated as any one less than that.

Join with me and Demand BP to give We the People an ear.