WTF!!!!!!! Ahhhh, seee WE ALL need a Ted "DA Junkman":beer :TU: Holdin' for over a day now:beer :TU: :beer :TU: !!! Holdin' onto hope it continues holdin'. Gotta keep at 6,000-9,000psi ffrom just a few hours or up to a days...ray: It *should* never leak again...:idea2:
This morning's front page: Strength of damaged oil well in Gulf of Mexico being assessed Published: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 9:07 PM Updated: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 9:34 PM Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune For the first time in the nearly three months since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank off the Louisiana coast, there was no oil leaking from the blown-out Macondo well into the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon, BP said. The well was successfully "shut in" at 2:25 p.m., so that BP could begin a critical six- to 48-hour observation period that ultimately will determine whether the well is strong enough to continue holding the oil inside of it for up to a month until it can be permanently sealed with cement. Echoing the sentiment of Gulf Coast residents, BP Vice President Kent Wells said it felt "very good" to no longer see oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, but he cautioned that scientists and engineers were still in the very early stages of testing the well and said results would not be known for several hours or possibly days. "I'm very pleased that there's no oil going into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, I'm very excited there's no oil going in the Gulf of Mexico," Wells said. "Where I'm holding back my emotion is we're just starting the test and I don't want to sort of create a false sense of excitement." BP is now conducting a "well integrity test" on the blown-out well to determine whether it is intact. The longer the test goes, the more promising the results are likely to be. The test began when the well was shut in. The integrity test involves measuring the pressure inside the well. If pressure rises and holds at 8,000 to 9,000 pounds per square inch, the well could remain closed. If it is lower than that level, however, it will be reopened and oil would again be sucked to vessels on the surface. The low pressure readings would indicate to scientists that oil is escaping through one or more fissures in the well. "We will be monitoring the pressures carefully and every six hours we'll consult between our engineers and scientists and government scientists and make decisions to continue forward with the test," Wells said. "Or, if at any point we feel the test needs to be suspended we will do that." BP officials did not report any results of the test Thursday night. But, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told CNN there did not appear to be any leaks in the system or other immediate complications. "We don't have any leaks. We don't have any oil coming out that we know of," Suttles said. "Hopefully we'll continue it for the next 48 hours, which puts us well into Saturday afternoon." The condition of the well has been an unknown since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank April 20, killing 11 people and setting the stage for the protracted disaster. Concern about possible damage to the well was heightened after the failure of "top kill," an earlier attempt at stopping the oil flow by pumping heavy mud into the top of the well. Oil failed to overcome the flow of oil, raising the specter that it was escaping the well somehow. Scientists estimate that the well produces 35,000 to 60,000 barrels of oil per day. So far, controlling the leak subsea has meant simply collecting as much oil as possible and sucking it to vessels on the surface. Before the shut-in attempt began last week, oil was being pulled from the well and onto the Discoverer Enterprise drill ship and Q4000 platform on the surface. The former collected oil for refinement, the latter flared it off on site. Together, the vessels managed to collect about 23,000 barrels of oil per day. The Discoverer Enterprise, which had been attached to an ill-fitting containment cap jammed on top of the well, was disconnected Saturday to make room for the shut-in system. A floating platform called the Helix Producer was also collecting oil at the site up until the shut-in process began. The well integrity test commenced after a two days of delays. BP had originally planned to begin the test Tuesday but Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced late that day that it had been delayed by 24 hours in response to concerns about the procedure from a team of scientists, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The scientists will be involved in reading and interpreting the pressure data as it becomes available. The scientific team's worries were put to rest Wednesday and BP crews were given the green light to proceed with the well shut-in and integrity test. But the test was delayed again Wednesday evening after engineers discovered a leak in the "choke line" of a new blowout preventer placed on top of the well. The choke line was to be the last of five points closed in before the test began. The leaking system was removed over night Wednesday and replaced Thursday morning with a back-up choke line that was already on site, Wells said. If the well integrity test follows the best case scenario, oil would never leak from the Macondo well again and it would remain shut until a relief well could pump it with mud and seal it with cement, a procedure that would permanently shut the well down. BP crews have temporarily halted drilling of the relief well until the integrity test is complete. The well has been drilled to about 17,840 feet. The plan is for it to intercept the Macondo well at about 18,000 feet. If the integrity test results in the reopening of the well, BP would continue with an earlier plan that called for the continued collection of oil by surface ships until the relief well is complete. As many as four ships, with the capacity to collect 80,000 barrels of oil and to disconnect quickly in the case of a hurricane, would be used in that process. "Over the next several hours we will continue to collect data and work with the federal science team to analyze this information and perform additional seismic mapping runs in the hopes of gaining a better understanding on the condition of the well bore and options for temporary shut in of the well during a hurricane," Allen said. "It remains likely that we will return to the containment process using this new stacking cap connected to the risers to attempt to collect up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day until the relief well is completed." Shares of BP stock closed regular trading up $2.74. http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/strength_of_damaged_oil_well_i.html
Here is another aerial flight video of oil mess. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxDf-KkMCKQ&feature=player_embedded#!
Take a look at whats going on. http://tubec.com/ Click the little BP logo on the right and 10 live feeds should come up.
Been away for the past few days..... http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-15/127960752510580.xml&coll=1 CAP STAYS PUT DESPITE 4 SEEPS Gas bubbles not seen to be a threat just yet Tuesday, July 20, 2010 By Rebecca Mowbray Business writer Scientists have discovered four gas seepages at or near BP's blown-out Macondo well since Saturday, but the federal government will allow BP to leave the cap on the well for another 24 hours while it watches for signs of ruptures in the underground portion of the well. Bubbles have been spotted on the seabed about three kilometers away from the well, a few hundred meters from the well, at the base of the original blowout preventer on the well, and coming out of a gasket in the flange on the capping stack that was installed last week. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander, said he doesn't think the faraway bubbles are related to the Macondo well, and the capping stack bubbles simply indicate that the new device doesn't have a good seal in one spot, so that leaves the nearby spot on the seabed and the base of the blowout preventer as areas of concern. Advertisement Bubbles can indicate pathways where oil could soon follow. But Allen said BP and federal officials don't think the bubbles are problematic because the pressure continues to rise in the well, albeit slowly, and seismic, acoustic and sonar monitoring in the area aren't detecting any sudden shifts that would indicate the well is blowing out underground. "The small seepages, at least at this point, do not indicate that there is any threat to the well bore," Allen said. Allen's comments Monday afternoon capped what seems to have been a tense period between BP and the federal government, which is overseeing its response. On Sunday, Allen sent BP a terse letter ordering the company to disclose any signs of trouble within four hours of finding them and to have a plan ready for how to relieve pressure in the well immediately. Late Sunday night, BP canceled the 7:30 a.m. briefing it had been holding for the past week, and on Monday morning, the company refused to acknowledge the seepages that Allen had written about in his letter. The first real descriptions of the seeps Monday came not from the Coast Guard or BP, but from a White House briefing. While Allen's tone was optimistic Monday afternoon, the government's decision to let BP keep the cap in place in 24-hour increments signals that scientists still don't fully understand what's going on with the well. Pressure has been rising in the well, which is a good sign, indicating that the well might be sealed. But the readings are much lower than expected -- 6,811 pounds per square inch and rising an inch an hour -- igniting a debate about whether the well might have a leak somewhere or has simply lost its initial oomph after flowing for 81 days. Too soon to tell Bill Gale, a California engineer and industrial explosion expert who is a member of the Deepwater Horizon Study Group, said BP probably wants the cap to remain in place because it eliminates the public-relations problem of oil billowing through the water on the ROV cameras and stops oil that eventually will be tallied as the basis for fines. The government, it appears, is only granting continued use of the cap on a short-term basis while it waits to see whether it can become more comfortable with the situation, Gale speculated. Although Allen is optimistic, engineers say it's too early to conclude that the cap is working. Now that the reservoir of the Macondo well is flowing, the pressure could be rising because the temperature might be rising in the chamber, Gale said. But later in the day, BP senior vice president Kent Wells said the temperature of the well has been consistent. It's also possible, Gale said, that gas hydrate crystals could be plugging any holes in the underground portion of the well, and they could get dislodged as pressure builds. "The increase in pressure could be a total red herring," Gale said. Advertisement Meanwhile, Gale's mentor, Berkeley engineering professor Bob Bea, has very little confidence in what has been said publicly about the seeps. He's troubled that word is only now coming to light about seeps three kilometers away, because a survey of the seabed conducted before BP drilled its well didn't indicate anything like that. "There was nothing that indicated the presence of such a seep," Bea said. "I wonder why we're just now finding that out?" BP has yet to release other video that Bea's study group requested more than a month ago about what might have been shots of nearby seeps. And Bea is especially concerned about the bubbles at the base of the blowout preventer. He said BP does not appear to have installed a casing hanger lock, opening the possibility that gas and liquids could make their way up through the casing to the seabed. Missing well section? Also, the mysterious second pipe that was revealed to be stuck in the blowout preventer when BP cut off the riser pipe a few weeks ago could have actually been a section of the liner material from the bottom part of the well, leaving open the possibility that an entire section of the well could be missing down below, Bea said. It's unclear because that mysterious pipe fell back down into the well last week when BP was removing equipment in preparation for the capping stack. "I wish we had more information overall," Bea said, adding that the uncertainty with the cap puts even more importance on the relief wells to permanently shut down the renegade Macondo well. Wells, the BP official, said Monday afternoon that the first relief well is at a depth of 17,862 feet. It's four feet to the side of the original well and is "perfectly positioned" at the right angle to intercept it. On Wednesday and Thursday, Wells said, BP will run the casing and then will cement it. After it cures, the company will be ready to drill the final feet to intercept the well, possibly by the end of July. Meanwhile, Allen and Wells, in their separate conference calls, introduced a new option for keeping the well under control until the relief wells are completed: a static kill. In May, BP tried a dynamic "top kill," whereby it pumped massive amounts of drilling mud at high rates of speed into the blowout preventer to try to suppress the flow of oil. Now that the well is at least temporarily contained with the cap, the company might try a "static kill," in which it can get away with pumping mud at lower pressures and rates of speed because it doesn't have to work as hard to gain control of the oil. Wells said his company will decide whether to pursue the static kill in the next few days. Even if it is successful, it would move forward with plans to cement the well through the relief well, but the static kill would make that job easier. Hmmmmmm, seeps in the earth where none were before? BP not releasing video of surrounding areas?????:rant:
From the trial... http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/hearings_still_unclear_why_key.html Testimony from a top BP official on the Deepwater Horizon rig did little to clarify why the oil giant made decisions to bypass key safety tests shortly before the well blew out April 20. One of the tests BP decided to skip was a bottoms-up test, a process by which drilling mud is circulated through the hole to tell the crew if natural gas has infiltrated the well. That would have been key because gas eventually kicked up the hole and caused the explosions that doomed the rig. Ronald Sepulvado, a BP company man in charge on the rig until April 16, testified that he might skip the bottoms-up test if the crew had been losing drilling mud through openings in the well's wall. He said the well had been suffering losses of mud. Losing mud usually calls for a second test, called a cement bond log, to measure the integrity of the cement barriers that are supposed to seal off the well walls. The company had hired a crew from service contractor Schlumberger to run the test, but sent the team home 11 hours before the accident without conducting the cement bond log. In a circular argument that had lawyers from rig owner Transocean confused, Sepulvado said a cement bond log wasn't needed unless fluid was being lost. Separate testimony has shown that a test of pressure in the well on the day of the accident was interpreted to mean that fluid was no longer being lost, even though it had to be run twice to get that positive result. In any event, the Schlumberger cement bond log team had already been sent home by the time that test was done and Sepulvado testified that the team's return flight would have been arranged a day in advance. Sepulvado wasn't on the rig at the time of the accident because, ironically, he had come back to shore to attend a blowout preventer training program. The two BP employees who served in Sepulvado's position on the rig April 20 and would have had a more direct impact on some of these decisions, Robert Kaluza and Don Vidrine, have been called to testify before the panel, but have not shown up. Through his lawyer Shaun Clarke, Kaluza invoked his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself, and Vidrine has twice cited illness as a reason for not testifying. The Deepwater Horizon's blowout preventer -- the key device for shutting off a wild oil well -- had a leak in the days before it failed to operate, which may have required BP to suspend operations under a federal regulation, a BP company man testified Tuesday. Well site leader Ronald Sepulvado told a Marine Board investigative panel in Kenner that before he wrapped up his stint as BP's top man on the rig four days before the April 20 accident, he reported that one of the control pods on the blowout preventer, or BOP, had a leak. He said he told his supervisor in Houston, BP team leader John Guide, and assumed that Guide would notify federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service. According to investigators, that never happened. Federal Regulation 250.451(d) states that if someone drilling in federal waters encounters "a BOP control station or pod that does not function properly" the rig must "suspend further drilling operations until that station or pod is operable." Asked if that was done, Sepulvado said it wasn't. "I assumed everything was OK because I reported it to the team leader and he should have reported it to MMS," Sepulvado said. Sepulvado said he didn't consider the leaking BOP pod a "critical function of the BOP stack" and said the whole device "didn't lose functionality." The BOP has become a major focus of the investigation into what went wrong on Deepwater Horizon when the well 5,000 feet below blew out, set off explosions that killed 11 people onboard and eventually created the largest oil leak in U.S. history. The BOP is a 450-ton stack of steel valves and pistons, operated with hydraulics to close over the well if oil or natural gas threatened to kick up and out of the hole. The Deepwater Horizon appeared to be out of compliance with another federal regulation requiring independent inspection of a rig's blowout preventer every three to five years. Investigators have said they had no record of an inspection after the year 2000. Jason Mathews, a member of the Marine Board panel, said the rig was "way past" the inspection requirement in Section 250.446(a) of the code. :shock:
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-14/127960747910580.xml&coll=1 Testimony on rig explosion takes testy turn Some suggest short cuts were taken Tuesday, July 20, 2010 By David Hammer Staff writer Testimony before a panel investigating the cause of the Deepwater Horizon explosion grew heated Monday as lawyers for various companies connected to the rig attempted to place blame on one another and angled to expose maintenance problems they say existed before the April 20 accident. BP lawyers sought to highlight unfinished work by the rig owner, Transocean, and a rash of equipment problems. Witnesses who worked on the rig for BP's contractors were guarded in their testimony, but at times added to a growing pile of evidence suggesting BP authorized corner-cutting, cost-saving measures in the hours leading up to the accident. During the hearing in Kenner, Stephen Bertone, Transocean's chief engineer on the rig, often said he didn't know or couldn't recall answers to questions. But with BP lawyers pushing him, Bertone acknowledged that an audit he reviewed before the accident found 390 jobs undone, accounting for thousands of man-hours of work. Bertone also testified that he'd requested more employees from his bosses at Transocean and hadn't received the help. A computer system used by the driller to track activity thousands of feet down in the well was malfunctioning in the days before the accident and technicians hadn't arrived to fix it, Bertone said. Ronnie Penton, a lawyer representing chief electronics technician Mike Williams, a subordinate of Bertone's, suggested that some key safety functions on the rig were set to bypass when the accident occurred. First, Penton asked if the general alarm was bypassed. Bertone said he didn't know, but testified that he didn't recall hearing it sound when the explosions began. Then, Penton asked if a system for purging gaseous air from the drill shack had been bypassed for the past five years. Again, Bertone said he didn't know and didn't know who else would know. Penton said the so-called "mini-purge" system was critical for keeping natural gas -- the same gas that ended up igniting the massive explosions onboard the rig -- away from the drill floor. It appears the men on the drill floor were all killed instantaneously in the explosions. Meanwhile, new information that raised questions about BP decisions popped up throughout the day's testimony from three witnesses. BP and Halliburton officials argued in e-mails released last month about the use of key pieces of oil well safety equipment called centralizers, and testimony Monday suggested additional centralizers were ready on the rig but simply weren't installed. Centralizers are devices that are supposed to keep tubes in place in an oil well so that cement seals can set evenly on either side. E-mails released in June by a congressional committee showed that Halliburton recommended using more than 20 centralizers to make sure the cement seal was good, but BP officials settled on just six of the devices to save time and money. But Lance John, the worker in charge of installing well casing and other tools for contractor Weatherford, testified that he installed only "four or five" centralizers and additional ones were delivered and never used. "They did order some more and talked about getting them out there," John said. "Additional centralizers were delivered, but there were four or five run in the hole." Asked if the other centralizers were made available to the rig but simply weren't used, John said, "Yes." But John also testified that two different types of centralizers were provided by Weatherford. It's unclear if the unused pieces were the right kind for the well. Experts have said that not using the recommended 21 centralizers was a fateful decision that caused cement to channel or "U-tube" and set poorly, possibly allowing natural gas to infiltrate the well and shoot up the hole, causing the explosion. The drilling fluid specialist on the rig, Leo Lindner of the firm M-I SWACO, testified that an abnormally large volume of a fluid called "spacer" was used in the blowout preventer and upper part of the well before pressure tests were done on the well. He also said two types of spacer were combined in a way he'd never seen before. The use of double the quantity of the heavy fluid, plus the combination of two different kind of spacer, could have affected the blowout preventer, the massive stack of valves and slicers that failed to close off the well when the accident happened. The impact of the abnormal mixture on the pressure test results is unknown, and Lindner shied away from drawing any clear conclusions. The reason the rig used the aberrant fluid is noteworthy, too. Ky Kirby, a lawyer for Anadarko Petroleum and MOEX Offshore, part owners of the well and recent adversaries of BP in disputes over responsibility, pushed the issue. Lindner said BP prompted him to combine the two doses of spacer because they could both be dumped overboard if they were both used in the well, but if one of the mixes hadn't been used in the well, it would have required disposal as hazardous waste. Lindner testified that would have likely required an extra service boat to come out to pick up the unused material, adding time and expense to a project that was already more than $20 million overbudget and 43 days behind schedule. Lindner said the two spacer mixes had not been combined before, and he tested a gallon of each the day before the accident, saying they didn't "set," or become too firm. But when used April 20, the mixture contained more than 400 barrels of viscous fluid, or about 8,500 times more than in the sample Lindner tested. Bertone testified earlier Monday that he saw unfamiliar slippery fluid that he likened to "snot" on the deck after the initial explosions. Other testimony Monday made reference to a statement Bertone signed aboard a rescue vessel 26 hours after abandoning the rig, raising interesting questions about the way the crew responded to the accident. The statement remains under seal, but was referenced by several attorneys Monday. In it, Bertone stated that Capt. Curt Kuchta, the rig's master, yelled at one employee for pushing a distress button and ordered another to leave behind an injured man on a gurney, according to BP lawyer Richard Godfrey. Godfrey pressured Bertone to explain his initial incident statement, but Bertone's lawyer repeatedly advised him not to comment on it. That set off a long dispute over whether the witness would answer or if he had to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself. It also brought objections from Transocean lawyer Ned Kohnke and Kuchta's personal lawyer, Kyle Schonekas, who said the panel could have asked Kuchta about it when he testified in May. Raising the criticism now didn't afford the captain an opportunity to defend himself or put his decisions into context, they said. Similarly, subsea engineer Chris Pleasant testified in May that Kuchta urged him to calm down shortly after the explosions and not activate an emergency disconnect system. That disconnect could have stopped the flow of gas and oil to the rig and possibly minimized the fire. The system ended up not working when Pleasant later tried to activate it.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave..." Interesting read. Looks like there were many many shortcuts taken enroute to this disaster. Can anyone be trusted to do it by the book? Seems everyone was just "winging it". There has to be some criminal charges laid here. This was not just an accident it was criminal negligence.
Tom you are correct. I heard today that the country worse than our regulations is Canada- which confused me as I thought you have to had something that escapes me now- that we don't. Does that make sense.ou:
More BP fallout.....Corexit. People along the Gulf are bleeding internally from this nasty chemical dispersant. http://www.examiner.com/x-10438-Hum...-EPA-hiding-gassed-people-bleeding-internally "Kaufman concurs with MSNBC's report last week, that "sole purpose in the Gulf for dispersants is to keep a cover-up going for BP to try to hide the volume of oil that has been released and save them hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars of fines... not to protect the public health or environment. Quite the opposite.." He says to follow the money, and that leads to individuals in the Obama Administration, naming Mr. Geithner, Mr. Summers with close ties to Larry Fink who owns BlackRock that owns most BP shares. He commented on the children being poisoned: "...you know, when youre on the sand with your children and they dig, and theres a little water?they documented there was over 200 parts per million of oil waste in the water, and its not noticeable to the human eye... On top of it, the contamination in one of the samples was so high that when they put the solvent in, as a first step in identifying how much oil may be in the water, the thing blew up, just as he said, probably because there was too much Corexit in that particular sample." When Goodman asked Kaufman to comment on the similarities between the Ground Zero of the Gulf catastrophe and what happened at Ground Zero of 911, he explained that he did the ombudsman investigation on Ground Zero, "where EPA made false statements about the safety of the air" ... since proven to be false. "
Back out on the same beach in Galveston Saturday, I found a bunch of stuff washed up. (about a 100 yard stretch of beach) It looked like brake fluid with oil mixed in. The oil wasn't "mixed" together like when you stir up chocolate milk. It looked like the oil was breaking up in the "brake-fluid" looking stuff. I took some pictures, but haven't had the chance to upload them yet. I even got a short 10 second video of the stuff to show.
READ IT AND WATCH IT. THAT STUFF CAN KILL YA. http://atomicnewsreview.org/2010/07...ing-up-effects-of-dispersant-in-bp-oil-spill/
I'll get my pictures and video clip up as soon as I can. The sad thing is, there were alot of people still playing and swimming in the water as if nothing was wrong.
Here's what I found. Video: <OBJECT width=640 height=385> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_iwO1nQnrVk&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></OBJECT></P> Pictures: There were thousands of these baby crabs washed up. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/r0ckstarr/4819794866/" title="... by B.Starr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4098/4819794866_f59f2b22fc.jpg" width="500" height="282" alt="..." /></a> A stretch of beach where oily stuff has soaked in. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/r0ckstarr/4819794764/" title="... by B.Starr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4118/4819794764_648cff4eee.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="..." /></a> An up close view of what some of the washed up stuff looks like after it has dried up on the sand. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/r0ckstarr/4819794586/" title="... by B.Starr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4819794586_14e53ac15a.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="..." /></a> Some of it washing up. You can see the oily bubbles floating in it. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/r0ckstarr/4819172473/" title="... by B.Starr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4077/4819172473_3fcdde22bd.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="..." /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/r0ckstarr/4819794172/" title="... by B.Starr, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4119/4819794172_bd7e6f53aa.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="..." /></a>
To update this, I saw tractors out there the day before yesterday running up and down the beach. It looked like they were scraping the top layer of sand up. Then there was another tractor grating the sand that had already been scraped.
I have heard that fresh sand is being trucked in and spread OVER the contaminated sand in AL/MS. Wonder if this what you are actually seeing in TX.
That could be what they were doing. Doesn't make sense to me though. How many kids dig up the sand and build sand castles? Once a year, we have a sand castle competition on this same stretch of beach.
Don't know what good it'll do. Sand is the most porus substrate there is. How far down are they gonna go? I had to stop posting articles for a while . It was getting too much. I will say there was a state wide meeting this week with the local Parish Pres. and mayors. BP said they would come but canceled 20 min. before. The fear is now that the leak is "stopped". BP is scaling back their efforts.....:rant:
