President Obama has turned down Arizona Governor Jan Brewers request for a meeting regarding the Arizona Immigration policy, and says he has no plans to meet with her in the future.
Brilliant.
Rather than try and work with the Governor and the rest of the State representatives on policy that the majority of Americans agree with, he’s going to continue blasting the bill, and bringing foreign leaders in to follow suit.
All the while neither he nor Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have read the bill (by her own admission).
Talk about poor leadership skills.
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BP is set to try a top kill tomorrow on the MC252 well in the Gulf.
Effectively, a top kill consists of injecting heavy fluids under high pressure down into the well bore. The weight of those fluids (i.e. the “head”) counters the pressure of the oil and gas coming up the well bore, and the end result is a “kill”.
Then, BP can come back in with cement and permanently plug the well.
The key is that the fluid you’re injecting needs to be very heavy. Drilling fluid is typically used; it’s used on the drilling process for the exact same purpose, to contain fluids in the well bore.
The other requirement is that you must be able to inject that heavy fluid under enough pressure to initially overcome (or overpower, if you will) the opposing pressure of the oil and gas condensate coming the pipe.
Good luck BP. I’m excited to see if this works. It’s never been done in deep water.
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The Obama Administration is now saying that it will push BP off cleanup duty and take over if they determine that BP isn’t taking all the appropriate actions.
Great. Call in the experts.
The administration also accuses BP of “missing deadline after deadline”.
If that isn’t the kettle talking…
BP will try a top kill on Tuesday, and if that doesn’t go well I suspect they’ll try a junk shot. I don’t have much faith in junk shots.
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