"Top Kill" has officially failed... BP ponders next bit of 1960s-tech to try to plug oil leak...

[Grateful11]

space-time wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
They are going to cut off the only parts slowing stuff down so they have a clean pipe. This will speed up the flow. Then they will thread the outside of the pipe, screw on a cap and shut it off.

chance of success... 1%?
They don't even do that above water, that I know of, that's why they have BOP's that actually
work. Any other industry has to have contingency plans for spills as small as a slow drip of
oil if there's a chance it's going end up in a storm drain. These people appear to have no
contingency plan of any kind.

I wonder what the big company that goes around the world putting out fires and capping
wells has to say about all this.