White House officials: Explosives to stop well may cause “uncontrolled situation”; Oil may already be escaping into “rock formations below the sea floor”

No nukes in the gulf: White House officials, Yahoo News Canada, June 3, 2010:

Carol Browner, ... Read more >>

Oil Expert: Only way to shut well off is to “let it complete which might take 30 years” or “a nuclear device”; Hurricane will “paint the Gulf Coast black”

Excerpts from prominent oil-industry insider Matt Simmons third appearance on MSNBC's Dylan Ratigan Show, June ... Read more >>

UK Engineering Mag: Well casing could have been ejected from the well; ‘Doomsday Scenario’ happening?

In today's rather optimistic online report BP now capturing 16k barrels/day at Deepwater Horizon from ... Read more >>

Former Shell Oil President: “Relief well may not be enough”, next step “to implode well on top of itself”

During an online chat session at the Washington Post this afternoon, recently retired President of ... Read more >>

Oil Expert: BP must ‘keep the well flowing to minimize oil and gas going out into the formation on the side’

Statements by oil and gas industry expert Bob Cavnar on MSNBC:

These stories that are coming ... Read more >>

BP Official: The well is leaking “out to the side, into the formation”

The Washington Post reported, "Sources at two companies involved with the well said that BP ... Read more >>

Flow Rate Technical Group member: Severed riser increased flow “far more” than 20%; now likely 100,000 barrels a day

McClatchy, June 7, 2010,

BP's runaway Deepwater Horizon well may be spewing what the company once-called ... Read more >>

Senator confirms reports that wellbore is pierced; oil seeping from seabed in multiple places

Senator Bill Nelson was interviewed by Andrea Mitchell this morning on MSNBC and confirmed reports ... Read more >>

CNN Money: “If the relief well doesn’t work” deep sea wells “generally produce oil for 5 to 20 years”

CNN Money asks the experts: How bad can the oil disaster get?

How much oil: BP ... Read more >>

ALERT: BP says wellbore may be compromised

Malfunctioning disk inside the well about 1,000 feet below the ocean floor

Excerpts from the Wall ... Read more >>

BP Officials: “part of the subsea safety infrastructure may have ruptured” 1,000 feet beneath oil wellhead.

Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal:

The disk, part of the subsea safety infrastructure, may ... Read more >>

Oil Expert: ‘Well to flow for probably more than a decade’ if not plugged successfully

Bloomberg:

The ultimate worst-case scenario is that the well is never successfully plugged, said Fred Aminzadeh, ... Read more >>

Expert: ‘Gusher would continue until the well bore hole collapsed or pressure in the reservoir dropped to a point where oil was no longer pushed to the surface’

From the Associated Press regarding the relief well planned for August at the earliest:

"The probability ... Read more >>

BP Disaster Plan: Blowout could spew 250,000 barrels a day into Gulf

BP Plc said in permit applications for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico... filed with ... Read more >>

BP lost control of well one month before blowout

BusinessWeek:

BP Plc told regulators six weeks before its well in the Gulf of Mexico exploded ... Read more >>

New York Times: Effort to cap leak with top kill has so far “failed”

The technician said that engineers had come up with a variety of theories about why ... Read more >>