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Originally Posted by 2001ragtop
Thank you for posting that. It keeps the situation in perspective. I refuse to accept that this situation won't be solved at least within this same year. (i.e. leak stopped, via a working option like a nuke or even building 6 relief wells.). You're right though that tempting mother nature is dangerous.
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The problem is, according to that article...that it is quite likely the BOP (wellhead, and structure going into the oil reservoir) will collapse before the relief wells will be finished, and that will be catastrophic. The author of the article had a lot of good points as to this. It's really kind of scary because he's pretty much saying (if I read it right) that if the BOP collapses, pretty much all of the oil they were drilling to will end up in the ocean...and that's a LOT of oil.