Thank you for putting us "beyond petroleum". Thank you for using good judgment and putting the health of our planet before profits or bonuses. Thank you for ignoring the equipment concerns of your own technologists. Thank you for the unbiased claims about the "highly unlikely" event we see before us today. Thank you for spending $16 billion lobbying the federal government and not on R&D to make better blow out preventers. Pray to God that the living cost of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe will be remembered by you until you no longer exist.
The well is now calculated to be gushing 25,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. A smaller version of the cofferdam will be tried to stem the flow. A large version did not work as it became clogged with gas hydrate crystals. If the gusher is can only stopped by a intercepting relief well which will take three months to drill that means a spill 10 times in volume of the Exxon Valdez. The Timor sea relief well required five tries before it hit the 10 inch target. It seems British Petroleum is rapidly running out of ideas of what to do next. Maybe BP should give Alexander Moskalenko in Moscow a call.