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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (76694)	5/30/2010 3:04:35 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Dudley, the BP guy on MTP said that the next step, which is going to take 4 to 7 days is to cut the tube so at to make the top of the tube from the BOP even, take a cap and with the help of robot arms, cap the top. If the confidence of success is higher than the top kill, as the guy on TV said, I wonder why was it not tried before? Some excerpts of Mr. Dudley's interview: DUDLEY: They, they are very, very careful people that check pressures and temperatures and connections. (My comment the golden rule: politicians do you get it) DUDLEY: The original estimates, which were government and BP estimates together, primarily unified estimates of 5,000 barrels a day, were based on satellite pictures. We've always found this a difficult oil to measure because of the, the huge amounts of gas in the oil. The, the new estimate range of I think it's 12,000 to 19,000 barrels has been issued without an actual flow measurement. The one thing about this method that we're about to go into, it will and should measure the majority of the flow. And now the kicker: MR. DUDLEY: I think the engineering on this is more simple than the, than the top kill. What we need to do is go down with the robots, diamond cut saws, slice off the top of that riser with a clean surface--the flow rate shouldn't be that much higher--and then drop over it this containment. It'll be a four to seven-day operation. I think the probability of it working is much different than the, the top kill, which is luck. MR. GREGORY: What--different, does that mean better? MR. DUDLEY: Better, absolutely better. msnbc.msn.com