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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 Riser Package (LMRP) over the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico is not quite...

Note: this is the same prose from thie morning's post of 9a or so, just with a new comment thread this morning. Enjoy.

Note: this is the same prose from last night's post of 6p or so, just with a new comment thread this morning. Enjoy.

The Top Kill attempts have failed, and the Government has given its response.

What I believe is going on is that BP is running a series of "junk shots" with the Nat Lab "junk", and after they run one they fill the well with mud to see if it has changed anything...

UPDATE: (9:19 PM) Friday - There have been at least two and possibly as many as four times today that there has been something that looks like an explosion, and debris rains around, and for a while the ROV cameras go and...

Caution is needed in interpreting results. I find in reviewing my analyses that I was at times misled by appearances of transparency, when it really wasn't there. And of course it isn't now, So, I have tried to explain why,...

This is yet another update and comment thread, talking this time about restarting the mud and the events that follow. Caution is needed in interpreting results. I find in reviewing my analyses that I was at times misled by...

Keep the discussions on point please. :) Thank you. http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=3 http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream/3&hpt=T1

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 this morning that the well had reached a point where the internal pressure difference...

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 this morning that the well had reached a point where the internal pressure difference...

Below the fold are two pictures to show why I believe that the injection pressure of mud into the well has dropped, indicating that BP have filled the well, and are now holding pressure to see if there are any problems...

I am putting up these two pictures to show why I believe that the injection pressure of mud into the well has dropped, indicating that BP have filled the well, and are now holding pressure to see if there are any problems...

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 Deepwater Top Kill attempt.

The WKRG "live" feeds is posted below; the NPR feed is posted "under the fold" (click "there's more" below). It is the same as the BP feed, which can be found here, but it seems pretty dicey and keeps going offline. wkrg_oil_spill...