Gulf Oil Spill: Alternative Capping Methods and Testing Blowout Preventers for the Relief Well
BP Tests the Blowout Preventer on the Relief Well Meant to Stem the 210,000 Gallon Daily Flow
As upwards of 210,000 gallons of crude continues to gush from the hole in the ocean floor, BP's Doug Suttles, with characteristic calmness that approaches thto the point of bland manner, cheerily explains the technical challenges involved in plugging the wellhead on the ocean floor and stopping the flow.
Suttles's press briefing.
Watch Suttles's press briefing
One of the ironies of the spill is that the cost of cleanup, remediation and settling lawsuits will cost BP far more than the simple testing and maintenance of the blowout preventer on Deepwater Horizon, the rig that caught fire and sank to the ocean floor in April, 2010.
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