HUGE: BP May Have Stopped The Leak

[Sub Atomic]

Source: Business Insider

This Reuters report is very encouraging, at least upon first blush...

BP Plc Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Wednesday it appears drilling mud, not oil, was gushing from a ruptured undersea well six hours into an effort to halt a growing oil spill.

"What you've been observing coming out of the top of that riser is most likely mud," Suttles said at a news conference broadcast from a Louisiana command center. "We can't fully confirm that because we can't sample it. And the way we know we've been successful is it stops flowing."

Indeed, the underwater cam now looks completely different, muddy and not clear, basically.

Fingers crossed. It will be awhile before we have anything confirmed.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-may-have-stopped-the-leak-2010-5#ixzz0p66ZEKdq


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/bp-may-have-stopped-the-leak-2010-5

[Bluebear]

1. PLEASE let it be so. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Yeah and when this originally happened, they said it wasn't a big deal.

Fingers crossed, but I'm not terribly optimistic.

[roguevalley]

13. considering the prayers and hopes and thoughts of several

billion people could make it so, it is so. I pray on my face that its so.

[intheflow]

15. That's where I am, too.

Been lied to too often to believe it without reservation. But it sure would give me some hope if it were true.

[Captain Hilts]

3. PLEASE make it so. nt

[lovuian]

4. Pray it is so

Please!!!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

5. Yep, it's already updated as "It's too early to tell."

[NYC_SKP]

21. It is too early to tell. More than 10 hours into it without incident, though...

So we're in a sort of hold pattern.

I've got it up on three views, going to go to bed and I hope in the morning I'm seeing more gray and less brown, or nothing at all.

:thumbsup:

[xchrom]

6. I HOPE this is a recommend. Nt

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. Fingers crossed.

Let this be true.

[Oregone]

8. Good. I hope I get to live to see the next catastrophic oil gush

Oh the memories

[jimlup]

9. I think they have stopped it but we won't know if it will hold for awhile...

fingers crossed!

[Odin2005]

10. PLEASE be true!

[time_has_come]

11. UNRECCED. This is a blog, not to mention that mud is expected right now...saying the leak stopped...

...as much as I wish it were true, is grossly premature.

they are pumping this "mud" in there at a high pressure and it was expected to show up. Until the mud reaches the bottom and they successfully cap it with concrete the leak is not stopped, and that will take at least a day.

[yowzayowzayowza]

14. Still, a mud leak is better than an oil leak. n/t

[onehandle]

12. We've known this for a while now ------>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4399659

[HughMoran]

16. 9:08PM? I was first @ 9:04PM

:P

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8426130

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Yeah, well I knew it at 9:03PM

I just didn't want to share with the people at this place! :P

:rofl:

[Brother Buzz]

22. I'm on the West coast, I heard it on the 6PM news

So there! ;)

[NYC_SKP]

19. You know Damn Well I beat you by HOURS!!11!!!

I did, I scooped Rachel Maddow!

And HughMoran!!!

:bounce:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=315207&mesg_id=315249

:hi:

[HughMoran]

25. yeah, we know that

...but if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there to see it, did the tree really fall?

:rofl:

[NoPasaran]

26. Actually, Eric The Red knew first, but Texas decided to leave the Vikings out of the textbooks

[NYC_SKP]

27. Evidence off the Pacific Coast suggest that the early Chinses mariners....

... :P

:hi:

[DeadEyeDyck]

17. Praise fucking Jesus, Allah, Spongebob or whatever

Is it true? I live down here.

[KonaKane]

20. Damn that Obama! He's making the water muddy!

Grrrrrr grumble fuss fidget...

[tranche]

23. Good. Hope the morning has further good news about this.

[garybeck]

24. I noticed the color of the fluid changed around 3-4 pm

[chillspike]

28. Oh, they stopped the leak?

I guess all is forgiven now.

[Junkie Brewster]

29. I am an atheist...

..but I will say a prayer to Zeus, Thor, Jehovah, Ganesh, Hotai, Hathor, Cthulhu, Morrigan, Coyote, Quetzelcoatl, Pele and Joe Pesci if it will stop this gusher.

[Control-Z]

30. As an atheist,

I worry any prayers from me would just piss off Gawd, Zeus, Thor...and make matters worse. Lol.

[KonaKane]

33. As a person of faith...

I am happy to report that none of the above pisses any of them off.

[mzmolly]

31. Like everyone else, I hope this is

true.

[zonkers]

32. Even if they are telling the truth for once, fuck them. They have revealed their

true greedy, ugly selves throughout this unfolding event.

[laughingliberal]

34. I'm sure everyone is hoping for the success of this operation. nt