Deep Well Is Not Spilling Oil, Official Says

i don't believe this for one second


NEW ORLEANS — A Coast Guard official said Friday morning that oil was not spilling from a deep-water well off the coast of Louisiana, apparently easing concerns of a potential environmental disaster days after an explosion on an oil rig left 11 workers missing and a one-by-five-mile sheen of oil on the Gulf of Mexico.

“It does not appear that oil is emanating from the hole,” said Katherine McNamara, a fireman with the Coast Guard.

Ms. McNamara said the assessment was made by using a remote-controlled device equipped with a camera and sonar. Officials with the Coast Guard and BP, the company leasing the rig, said they were still trying to determine why oil was not escaping from the well, and whether that remains a possibility.

Coast Guard helicopters, planes and patrol boats were in the final stages of search-and-rescue efforts for the missing workers, Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the commander of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District, said Thursday. She said interviews with some of the 115 survivors had indicated to officials that the 11 who were missing may have been “in the vicinity of the explosion,” a view echoed separately in interviews with reporters.

“As time passes,” she said, “the probability of success in locating the 11 missing persons decreases.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23rig.html?ref=global-home&pagewanted=print

I've got some industry buddies that are saying when the rig finally sank and water intrusion killed the secondary BOP panels on the bridge, the loss of connection would have activated the deadman and sealed the drill pipe.

Either that or the wellhead "bridged over" on itself, which is a nebulous concept I'm still trying to grasp.

read on...

The sinking of the rig left the scope of the disaster troublingly uncertain on Thursday. Admiral Landry and officials from BP and Transocean, the Swiss company that owned the giant rig, could not say with certainty Thursday whether oil and gas were still emanating from the well under water, though Adrian Rose, a vice president at Transocean, said the response team “was not able to stem the flow of hydrocarbons” before the rig sank.

They don't want you to know the truth about how it's already killed 495,000 people from radiation poisoning.