BP plc Plans Final "Kill" Of Leak: A Legacy Of Scientfic Failure

Energy

Published: August 1, 2010 7:30 am

Last Updated: August 1, 2010 10:36 pm

BP plc (NYSE: BP) says that it is within a week of a final solution to the leak from the wreckage of the Deepwater Horizon spill. It has begun to inject much into the well and relief wells are about to be completed.

BP has prepared 12,000 barrels of the heavy mud. Industry experts say that the move has an excellent chance of working.The media, government, and residents of the Gulf region will be plagued for years by two questions. The first is why the well did not have the proper safety features to stop the leak from happening altogether. The other is why all the best scientists and oil industry experts in the world took more than 100 days to cap the well completely.

The first question can be answered by the fact that it is certain the well did not have all the proper technologies in place and probably was not following the proper protocol to keep those features implemented.

There may never the an answer to the second.

Douglas A. McIntyre

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