If this was less risky than, say, the top kill, we would have done that before.
Analysis of the pressures at play in the top kill procedure may help reveal who was right.
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As The Economist went to press, BP was saying only that the top kill was still under way.
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It was almost cute that BP thought it could get away with shutting off the video during Top Kill.
That data indicated "that Top Kill was not working, contrary to BP's public statements at that time, " the affidavit states.
We did the top kill -- we were able to force mud down the wellbore to the point where we actually suppressed all the oil.
News from the Gulf of Mexico got a little more positive this morning after the LA Times reported that BP "top kill" procedure was a success.
The effort, called a "top kill, " involved plugging the ruptured deep-sea well by pumping heavy drilling fluid into it from the surface, nearly a mile above.
Mr Wells says that once the control pod has been reinstalled on the blowout preventer and the manifold is attached to the Q4000, the top kill could start.
The solutions for -- the solution with the top kill, first in stabilizing the well with heavy drilling mud, ultimately would lead to the cement capping of that well.
And as -- whether it was the top kill, whether it was the top cap, any of the exercises that needed to be signed off on by the federal on-scene coordinator in order to make happen, those were done.
For instance, as I talked about yesterday, in a normal process, there are choke and kill lines that are supposed to -- that in some cases will force mud, as they did under the top kill, into the blowout preventer.
"Before Top Kill commenced, Mix and other engineers had concluded internally that Top Kill was unlikely to succeed if the flow rate was greater than 15, 000 barrels of oil per day, " the Justice Department said in a statement announcing the charges.
And following the intersection of the well bore with those relief wells, they will put heavy mud down there to suppress the pressure of the oil coming up from the reservoir, put a cement plug in and effectively do what I would call a bottom kill, as opposed to the top kill, which was not successful a couple of weeks ago.
He dismissed the significance of former MI6 spy Richard Tomlinson's earlier account before the inquest that a colleague drew up plans to kill a top Balkan leader.
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Returning to the home screen by targeting the kill box in the top right corner proved to be the most difficult thing -- we soon resorted to tapping at the screen for that.
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