Question by Deke: What’s next with the oil spill?
Top kill failed. Now what?
Best answer:
Answer by ☆ ℓανєη∂єr ☪ §υmmεrgεm ☆
They work to try the fix to the problem:
“The next
option is to place a custom-built cap known as the “lower marine riser package” over the leak, the company’s chief operating officer, Doug Suttles said. BP crews were working Saturday to ready the materials for that option should it become necessary, he said.
“We’ve been prepping that all along in case we need to move to that option,” he said. “People want to know which technique is going to work, and I don’t know.”
And if “lower marine riser package” were to fail, he said, BP engineers would try placing a second blowout preventer on top of the first, which failed to cut of the oil flow after the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig. The failed blowout preventer is a 48-foot-tall, 450-ton apparatus that sits atop the well 5,000 feet underwater.”
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