TOP KILL SHOT WATCH. LIVE COVERAGE ! *UPDATE - "CRITICAL SETBACK"!!! NEW GIANT OIL PLUME SEEN IN GULF 22 MILES TO ALABAMA! PAGE 130

Looks like its doing what i do to the TV when it dont work...just hit it

holy shit. did something just blow? looks to me like thers's a shitload more coming out of there now.

LOL I was going to say that you beat me to it.

Shouldn't it have stopped by now??

The ROV is frasturated that it hasn't been able to stop the leak.

[link to screencast.com]

Wrench picture at link above... because no one else will ever believe us...

If the federal government has been in charge since the beginning as Obama said, than one thing is certain:

The Deepwater Horizen spill is his Katrina.

Where has he been, eh?

Think about it.

Yeah, thats it, a secret message to glp. There is a wrench in the works...

It`s a profetional hit, it`s not the same

Now we need to see the ROVs pass a beer or a cig :)

I think he answered the question... he was with Katrina.

Intern... she wears a dress...

When and if they start pumping concrete into it, how is it
going to set against all that pressure blowing it out?

the leak on the right looks bigger now,,,as big as the two middle ones....

Man, this leak is much much worse now. No doubt.


Comparison between today and one week ago.
[link to www.digitaloutpost.net]

I think the weight of the mud eventually makes a zero pressure state. It's weight offsets the pressure. At zero pressure they can 'crete it.

WASHINGTON: Engineers have stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, said yesterday.

The "top kill" effort, launched the day before by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block all oil and gas from the well, Admiral Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, but persisted, he said.

Barack Obama has been under political pressure over the disaster with influential Democrats, together with exasperated coastal officials, demanding that Washington take charge of efforts to stop the leak as well as the multibillion-dollar clean-up.

As the oil that gushed freely for 37 days, Louisiana officials pleaded with the administration to intensify its involvement.

"This is an embarrassment to our country," said Bill Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish, the municipality south-west of New Orleans that is home to one of America’s biggest fishing communities and which is taking the brunt of the spill.

Choking with emotion, he accused the Coast Guard and the well operator, BP, of failing to protect Louisiana’s world-significant coastal marshlands.

Thick oily residue up to a metre deep has inundated the area within more than 120 kilometres of spoilt coastline, and continues to penetrate saturated booms.

"We will lose more coastline from this catastrophe than from all four hurricanes – Katrina, Rita, Gustav and Ike," Mr Nungesser said.

A Democrat senator, Bill Nelson, whose home state of Florida could yet be hit by the slick, said if BP’s latest attempt to plug the leak failed, Mr Obama would need to seize personal control of the effort immediately.

A Louisiana resident, James Carville, appealed to the President. ‘‘Man, you got to get down here and take control of this, put someone in charge of this thing and get this thing moving. We’re about to die down here."

The White House insists the administration has been doing all it can, having dispatched more than 20,000 personnel to help with containment, while drafting 1300 vessels to assist with dredging and skimming.

Mr Obama, who will visit the Gulf for a second time today, has made great play in demanding that BP put things right and compensate all those hit by the spill, while foreshadowing tough new drilling regulations.

But some political strategists believe that the Deepwater Horizon blowout looms as Mr Obama’s "Katrina", a reference to how an inadequate response to the 2005 hurricane tainted the administration of George Bush.

The administration backed the so-called ‘‘top kill’’ procedure in which underwater robots have been forcing a mix of drilling mud and cement deep into the well, more than 1.6 kilometres below the surface. Several hours after the effort began on Wednesday afternoon, BP officials said the signs were hopeful.

"What you've been observing coming out of the top of that riser is most likely mud," BP's chief operating officer, Doug Suttles, told reporters in Houston.

"The way we know we've been successful is it stops flowing."

Documents have revealed that the volume of leaking oil was likely to have been far greater than the company’s public estimate of 5000 barrels a day.

BP’s own documents put an upper estimate of more than 14,000 barrels a day.

[link to www.smh.com.au]

The spanner thing was a secret message.

Their operation to stop the leak was messed with by another agency. Somebody threw a spanner in the works.

mud will eat the riser

Looks worse...anything thing else?

WASHINGTON: Engineers have stopped the flow of oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico from a gushing BP well, the federal government’s top oil spill commander, US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, said yesterday.

The "top kill" effort, launched the day before by industry and government engineers, had pumped enough drilling fluid to block all oil and gas from the well, Admiral Allen said. The pressure from the well was very low, but persisted, he said.

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WHAT???? Have you seen the cnn feed? Nothing has stopped.

Yep. The holes are getting bigger. When they're pinholes the stream is fine and high pressure straight. Not that they are getting bigger, they don't have that same look. But it's just as much force, if not more.

Anybody who has worked on pressure plumbing knows that.

The top kill is a BIG FAIL.

umm yeah. that is significantly worse.

i wonder if the heavy weight of the mud blowing out the top maybe damaging it even more?

that's what I thought, just wondering why the Australian newspapers are saying it's plugged.

Propaganda spewing as well as the oil.

The Ol3 ROV1 Feed on CNN.com eerily looks a lot like tudgirl

Did anyone notice that when you capture a screen shot of this -- there is always a 'face' in the plume?

[link to screencast.com]

I am still completely amazed at the MSM claiming success while we watch it "live" spewing oil still. This just shows that if we did not have the cams, we (non GLPers) would believe all this shit.

Last Edited by Bithead on 05/27/2010 02:23 PM

I don't know what to believe

:(

The oil leak has stopped. We are all safe. Perfectly safe.

If it is stopped, why then are they waiting for a second mud ship. And if they have stopped pumping, then there is no positive pressure on the well