From: Q - PM
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 06:50 PM

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From: Q - PM
Date: 09 Aug 10 - 05:55 PM

The cement job obviously failed on 20th April. Using exactly the same equipment the "Top Kill" cement job of the previous days has succeeded making the points raised by Q irrelevant:

How many centralisers are in place now? Same as before.

Has a liner been used? No same as before there is no way of running a liner into the hole

It is damn sure Halliburton and transocean will not get away BP will pursue them or their insurers. Saint Obama won't as he and his administration have got egg all over their faces on this so they will wish to avoid additional embarassment. But Pension funds and investors who lost heavily because of the rhetoric and grandstanding of the President and his administration may yet have their day. Biggest loser however will be the IRS as all costs will effectively be written off and will reduce BP's tax bill to zero in the US.

BP still remains the industry leader when it comes to deep drilling and no other oil company in the world is better at finding the stuff than BP.