BPspeak

[marmar]

What does any of this mean?


....(snip)....

BP insisted the top kill was progressing as planned, though the company acknowledged drilling mud was escaping from the broken pipe along with the leaking crude.

"The fact that we had a bunch of mud going up the riser isn't ideal but it's not necessarily indicative of a problem," said spokesman Tom Mueller.

The top kill is the latest in a string of attempts to stop the oil that has been spewing since the drilling rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20. Eleven workers were killed. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill

[gateley]

1. Some of the folks at TOD feel this is essentially a failure and BP is still controlling

the story, and covering up.

[BelgianMadCow]

2. If you stop the pumping, and the oil & gas comes back up & flows out of now bigger holes...

and you plan do to the same again, after you get more mud, adding a junk shot to the procedure,
I'd say the first try was a failure.

You can also say it's refining the procedure after taking a break to think things through :crazy:

BP PR = BS