Friday, May 21, 2010
BP holds off top kill to Tuesday
There are delays in setting everything up 5000 ft down.
Link leads to a lot of current info if you are curious.
BP operations boss Doug Suttles estimated today that the earliest BP would try the pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to kill it would be Tuesday.The contractors involved want to be ready for anything because no one can afford another fail.
On Wednesday, Suttles said the top kill operation would start on Sunday or Monday at the latest.
He did not give a specific reason for the delay but said the time needed for underwater work was “difficult to predict.”
That work includes making connections with the choke and kill lines and hooking up the subsea manifolds.
On top of the water, BP has brought in a “very large” barge to handle the mud mixture and two “very large” pumping vessels that combined exceed 50,000 horsepower, Suttles said Friday.
Link leads to a lot of current info if you are curious.
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