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NY TimesIn a telephone conference call with reporters, Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP, all but ruled out the use of explosives to crimp or implode the seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. (A recording of the call will be posted at the Deepwater Horizon Response page late today.)
He described blasting around the well as “not an option we believe we would ever use,” mainly because once it was attempted “we would have denied ourselves all other options.”
Suttles added that none of the experts who’ve been consulted in the ongoing brainstorming over the well “believes explosives should be used to stop the flow.”
That doesn’t leave a lot of options should the “ top kill” procedure, and a possible “ junk shot” chaser, fail.
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http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/24/bp-rejects-blasts-as-oil-well-response/