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The have one fuck up after another. This must be deliberate.



In the bloody 1st place I can not believe that an oil pipe can be installed like this without an emergency shut off value at the bottom of sea, just for in case the fucking rig can not function or goes on fire like BP's did.



Their brains are definitely inside their ass like the fucking PAP.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...x8nXPFhso4RFOA

BP removed oil spill cap after submarine crash

(AFP) – 3 hours ago

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Oil gushed unchecked Wednesday from a leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico after BP's containment system was removed following an accident involving a robotic submarine, US officials said.

It was a major setback for months-long efforts to mitigate the tens of thousands of barrels of crude flowing into the ocean, and a bad start for Bob Dudley, who took over Wednesday as BP's point person on the disaster response.

Admiral Thad Allen, the US official coordinating the crisis, said the cap was removed for inspection after crews detected gas in part of the container.

"They indicated the problem was a remotely-operated vehicle had bumped into one of the vents," which closed, creating pressure that forced material -- including gas -- up into part of the "top hat" container.

The containment system, which works by trapping leaking oil and then siphoning it up to a container ship, could be reinstalled later Wednesday after checks are complete, Allen said.

But he warned that if the siphon pipe had to be refitted, restarting containment operations "will take a considerable amount longer."

The cap had been siphoning away some 25,000 barrels of oil each day, and removing that capacity would leave between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels of crude flowing directly into the sea, according to the latest US government estimates.

It was a disastrous start to a first day on the job for Dudley, who took over management of the crisis for BP from chief executive Tony Hayward on Wednesday.

Hayward faced massive criticism of his handling of the spill, including accusations of insensitivity, and was ridiculed as gaffe-prone and out of touch.

Unlike Hayward, Dudley is an American citizen who spent much of his childhood in Mississippi, one of the four southern US states whose coastlines face catastrophe as a result of the disastrous spill.

The news came as administration officials pledged to redouble efforts to freeze new deepwater oil drilling while they assessed safety regulations.

On Tuesday, Judge Martin Feldman overturned a drilling moratorium authorized by President Barack Obama in the spill's aftermath, saying it was "arbitrary and capricious."

But the White House pledged to appeal the decision and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told lawmakers Wednesday he would seek to issue a new order.

"We will move forward with the executive authority which I have to make sure that the moratorium stays in place," he told US senators at a hearing.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Tuesday that Obama believes that "to drill at these depths without knowing what happened... does not make any sense."

But oil workers and executives argue the freeze is driving away business, and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a Republican, said the moratorium would hurt the same people already being negatively impacted by the spill.

An internal BP document released by a US lawmaker this week showed the firm contemplated a worst-case scenario of up to 100,000 barrels, or 4.2 million gallons, a day leaking.

America's worst previous oil spill, the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, dumped nearly 11 million gallons off the Alaskan coast, but even under the low end of current estimates, more than 90 million gallons have now spewed into the Gulf of Mexico.

BP has spent two billion dollars so far on cleaning up the spill and compensating residents and businesses facing ruin.