If you have ever had gophers in your yard and put a hose in one of their holes then you can see first hand the kind of problem BP is having. As the water goes in for a while it is sure to come up spouting out of another hole somewhere else. This could be a similar reaction to putting down pressure on a wellhead spouting oil for this long. The abrasion of anything like pebbles, rocks and sand being forced up under pressure this long acts just like a sand blasting device on the well pipes and anywhere the pipes could have been broken or damaged. So putting down pressure might just force the oil up somewhere there is no pipe or wellhead at all and make the whole problem 10 times worse. This is a real and present danger and is one of the many reasons I have said all along as an intuitive that there is a 50-50 chance for a variety of reasons that the well may not be able to be capped ever.
When You add to that any nations or corporations or terrorist organizations that are oil or drug wealthy enough to afford to buy or rent deep underwater robots or other types of interferences with the capping operation you wind up with at best only a 50-50 chance of ever capping this wellhead in an effective way. I am speaking only as an intuitive relating to the actual situation at hand rather than just a theoretical situation with many facts unknown or removed by various parties to the real situation.
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