Deepwater Oil Spill - the Congressional Illustrations

One of the considerable problems that arise in writing about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico comes in determining what...

Deepwater Oil Spill - cutting metal underwater

The decision to cut the riser and drill pipe (DP) from the top of the Blow-Out Preventer (BOP) as a first step in putting the Lower Marine ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - using a nuclear weapon

While the likelihood of using a nuclear weapon to shut off flow to the leaking oilwell in the Gulf are absolutely zero, nevertheless, under ...

Deepwater Oil Spill - why Top Kill may have failed

The Top Kill attempts have failed, and the Government has a response . He (President Obama) said US Energy Secretary Steven Chu was leading...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the end of Top Kill

BP and Admiral Landry just held a Press Conference in which they said that, based on a decision 90 minutes ago, by the “best and brightest m...

Deepwater Oil Spill - varying the junk mix and cutting the flow

The video from the ROVs monitoring the Deepwater oil leak from the well in the Gulf of Mexico show that the at around 10:45 am they may have...

Deepwater Oil Spill - why Top Kill starts and stops

Out in the Gulf BP are going through the preparations for the next stage in the attempt to top kill the deep water well that has been leakin...

Deepwater Oil Spill - restarting the mud, and an apology

It appears that a significant part of what I have written for the past day has been wrong, and the information that I, in good faith, commen...

Deepwater Oil Spill - preparing for cement

Admiral Allen, who is the Government head of the effort to cap the flowing well in the Gulf, and to oversee the cleanup operation, commented...

Deepwater Oil Spill - comparison of flows

I am putting up these pictures to show why I believe that the injection pressure of mud into the well has dropped, indicating that BP have f...

Deepwater Oil Spill - permissions and concerns about Top Kill

Rather than stick continuous updates on the previous post, I am going to add them as updates to this separate post on the progress of the De...