Cut successful on Gulf oil spill pipe

[Botany]

Source: AP

Last Update: 9:30 am

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — The Coast Guard has announced BP crews have successfully cut off the pipe in the latest attempt to contain the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.

Now, BP hopes to cap the pipe and start pumping some crude to a tanker on the surface.

Adm. Thad Allen made the announcement this morning opening his remarks that he finally had good news to report.

Read more: http://www.wtva.com/news/national/story/Cut-successful-on-Gulf-oil-spill-pipe/L70zi565tECyit6yUnmwtw.cspx

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Please let something work

[maddezmom]

1. I'm with you

I hope something works.

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Let's get this capped, and the relief well drilled.

The lease area should be permanently revoked from all owners and returned to the US Government. No more offshore oil drilling of no more than 950 feet down. 1.5 miles is simply not doable anymore without high risk. If the co wants to return back to offshore drilling, they better be prepared to meet the strictest of all regulation. One missing item, then the rig is shut down, and the lease returned to the US Government until they re-apply for the lease to drill.

BP should lose all its equity, assets and have every penny tied up to the Gulf of Mexico cleanup and loss of livliehood. The CEO and the board of directors should be held criminally liable, especially for the deaths of the 11 men.

I don't care if it's the CEO personally licking every drop of oil. He needs to help Gulf of Mexico recover to its former glory.

Hawkeye-X

[ladjf]

3. I like the way you think. nt

[Iliyah]

9. I understand

that this will not stop the gusher altogether, but most of it. I'm praying for a positive outcome!

[FailureToCommunicate]

4. Almost. This was apparently a 'rough cut'. So they'll have to try less tight fitting cap...

[Botany]

6. Send Dick Cheney down to smooth out the cut

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. I'd pay cash type money to view THAT on the internet! (Cheney: "Does this submersible

make me look fat?")

[Bryn]

5. Yay!

I'm hopeful ...

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[kestrel91316]

8. Why isn't the BP oil camera showing this?

[harun]

10. They are now and WOW is it gushing oil now.

[white cloud]

11. Going to be a big leak unless they got a flat cut with the shear!!!!

Got a good link, My BP is dead.


here is one link that say it is live??????
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/37412412#37412412

[harun]

12. Link

http://www.livestream.com/wkrg_oil_spill

[Faygo Kid]

13. Admiral Says Oil Pipe Is Cut, a Key Step in Halting Leak

Source: New York Times

BP successfully sliced off the riser pipe that is leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Adm. Thad W. Allen, the federal incident commander, said on Thursday. But the cut is irregular, and placing a cap over the gushing oil well will be more challenging than initially hoped, he said.

Admiral Allen said during a briefing Thursday morning in Metairie, La., that the cap was over the gusher and that workers expected to lower it into place in the next couple of hours.

The attempt to cut the pipe ran into trouble on Wednesday when a tool that could have made a cleaner cut, a diamond-laced saw, became snagged and could not complete the job. A different, less precise method was used to complete the cut, using a large shear that had previously been used to cut the pipe about 50 feet away from the well.

As engineers continued work on the delicate attempt to siphon the oil gushing from the floor of the gulf, the head of BP acknowledged Thursday that the company had not been fully prepared to deal with a deepwater spill. . .

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/04/us/04spill.html?hp

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Excuse me for being skeptical.

[IronLionZion]

14. BP cuts leaking oil pipe; protests set to start

Source: CNN

In its latest attempt to contain the undersea oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, oil company BP on Thursday sliced off the top of a damaged riser.

Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the federal government's response manager, called the development a "significant step forward." The next step is to place a containment dome over the well.

An attempt to sever the pipe with a diamond-embedded saw failed Wednesday. The company turned to shears, which were not able to make as precise a cut, and a new plug will not be as tight as previously hoped.

Because the cap will not be as snug, oil will still be flowing into the Gulf.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/03/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

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This is different from the other LBN article on the cut because it includes info about the nationwide protests against BP as well as well as visual media to help explain what is happening and why.

[ixion]

15. "Because the cap will not be as snug, oil will still be flowing into the Gulf."

so, the problem will still be a problem.

[IronLionZion]

16. hopefully this will lessen the problem significantly

until the relief wells are completed and then they can completely stop the flow from this well. It looks like they are trying to catch it in a funnel and channel it up to the top.

At this point anything that lessens the flow should help.

[white cloud]

17. not a good seal area!!!!!

All that methane and NG on the burden ship is another time bomb.

Sure glad I dont crew the ship.

[Ian David]

18. Photo...

[Iliyah]

19. Where are

the effin tea baggers all 50 of them? Why aren't they protecting? Oh I forgot, their masters controls them.

Hopefully most of the gusher will be contained and sucked up. The clean up still have to be vigilante.

[joanmj]

21. Right on....

[Ian David]

22. They should be on the beach eating the fish that liberal nanny-state crybabies say are poisoned. n/t

[IronLionZion]

20. VIDEO

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/03/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

[alfredo]

23. They are now cutting off metal boxes on pipe so the top hat

will fit.

[alfredo]

24. A saw blade just broke. It happened so fast.