Without meaning any undeserved disrespect, BP sure keeps coming up with fixes that don't actually work, or at least don't work as well when executed as they sound when proposed.
A reasonable observer might suspect that perhaps they don't really know what they're doing, and are all just basically, er, passing gas.
Most recently, they've spent some days just getting hold of a relatively stable flange, and not quite attaching a pipe to it.
The next, 'sure fire' step scares me a bit. Drilling into the ground under the gulf and piercing a pipe full of high pressure flammables, and sealing a joint that they can't see, or access externally? Yeah, I know they say they've done it before. They said they had done the other stuff before, too.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA