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Kept on burning. the huge out of control natural gas fed fire in that blown out well. the fire began late last night. the reason this picture looks like daylight is because it has continued to burn throughout today. officials in louisiana have spent the day not only trying to figure out how to put that fire out as the rig increasingly collapses. they re also trying to regain control of the runaway well, something that so far they have been unable to do. the latest plan is to try to set up something alongside it, drill a relief well, so the well that s blown would shut itself down eventually. this latest rig explosion in the gulf of mexico happened not far from where the deep water horizon rig blew out in 2010. in terms of the environmental toll from this current accident, it remains unclear at this point and frankly it s still on going. officials reported seeing a mile long sheen on the surface of the ....
Uncontrollably leaking natural gas then ignited. at 10:45 last night, the rig suddenly burst into flames and kept on burning. the huge out of control natural gas fed fire in that blown out well. the fire began late last night. the reason this picture looks like daylight is because it has continued to burn throughout today. officials in louisiana have spent the day not only trying to figure out how to put that fire out as the rig increasingly collapses. they re also trying to regain control of the runaway well, something that so far they have been unable to do. the latest plan is to try to set up something alongside it, drill a relief well, so the well that s blown would shut itself down eventually. this latest rig explosion in the gulf of mexico happened not far from where the deep water horizon rig blew out in 2010. ....
Remember the bp oil spill, we had every geologist on the planet trying to get a drill into a relief well, not even as deep as the well, just to relieve the pressure on the well, it took six months to get that done. so whatever oil came out of the ground that he s taking this victory lap for in 2009 and 2010, that was on someone else s watch, not his. the bottom line, he made an energy speech, forward looking. at the time he was speaking, oil was $103 a barrel. by the end of the day, it was $104 a barrel. right now, it s $106 a barrel. it keeps going up and up and up because his plan for less dependency on foreign oil will never work. he s got the used of windmills, solar panels, he s got the idea of switch blade, switch grass. these things don t work, martha. what we really need, want the solution? we need to drill here, drill now. and there are two proposals on the table. i know you want to get to it, but there are two proposals object the on the table that he s slowly ....
They ll totally blank the well out. but as of yesterday when the pressures held on the cement plug that was put in by the relief well, we can consider this well dead. are we any closer, admiral, to knowing what happened here? bp says when they tapped into the well, with that relief well, they found there was no oil or gas in what s cathe area that s surrounding the well casing, the pipe that s put down. the well casing and the surrounding rock. this wasn t a well design problem. do we know what caused it? well, i think the joint investigative team which has been panelled and they have the blow-out preventer and other evidence will have to determine that. we can did not know the condition, and that s been the big question mark. and that was the reason we need to come into the bottom with this relief well. but there were no hydrocarbons. is that an indication that it all came up from the bottom? didn t come in from the side like some analysts had speculated? ....
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