Seep Detected Near Capped US Oil Well

• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-07-19 18:32

  
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  July 19, 2010
  
  The US government has ordered BP to provide plans to remove the containment cap after a seep was detected near the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Skip related content
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  In a letter to BP boss Bob Dudley, retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said: "Given the current observations from the test, including the detected seep a distance from the well...I direct you to provide me a written procedure for opening the choke valve as quickly as possible without damaging the well."
  
  The hydrocarbon seepage could indicate that oil is still leaking from the damaged well on the ocean floor.
  
  Mr Allen demanded that the oil company provide swift action over the latest detected seepage.
  
  "I remain concerned that all potential options to eliminate the discharge of oil be pursued with utmost speed until I can be assured that no additional oil will spill from the Macondo Well."
  
  The well began gushing oil after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20 and capsized two days later, killing 11 workers.
  
  Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer, said the company now hopes to keep the damaged well shut until the relief well is completed in August.
  
  "We're hopeful that if the encouraging signs continue that we'll be able to continue the integrity test all the way to the point that we get the well killed.
  
  "Clearly we don't want to reanimate flow into the Gulf if we don't have to."
  
  

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  Link to article: Seep Detected Near Capped US Oil Well - Yahoo! News UK
  
  So who else saw this coming?
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-07-19 19:25
  Does BP just suck completely, or are they having ridiculously bad luck?
• Zid wrote on 2010-07-19 20:31

  Quote from bradstrt;98143:

  Does BP just suck completely, or are they having ridiculously bad luck?

  
  
  Well, they had problems with government officials at times...
• Spartaaaaa wrote on 2010-07-19 21:12

  Quote from bradstrt;98143:

  Does BP just suck completely, or are they having ridiculously bad luck?

  
  
  I think it's both...
• Time wrote on 2010-07-19 21:47
  Wait, so its a US oil well? I thought it was BPs, which would be British? The news just says BP so I thought that meant it was British.... *confused*
• Serathx wrote on 2010-07-19 21:48
  ^ It's an oil well in US territory but BP owns it.
• Hiccup wrote on 2010-07-19 21:48
  BP is a British oil company. They own wells in the Gulf as well as all over.
• Cucurbita wrote on 2010-07-19 21:55
  Eh, you can't particularly blame them too much.
  This isn't something thats easy to figure out.
• Chockeh wrote on 2010-07-19 21:55
  There was a oil leak in Montreal too :<.
• Chillax wrote on 2010-07-20 00:35
  They didn't do their homework and invest enough in prevention.