BP Sealing the Ruptured Oil Well in Gulf of Mexico

The giant oil company announced on Friday that they will seal the oil well because of the regulation about energy drilling that the House of Representatives voted. The BP Company will try to plug the well that caused the biggest oil spill in the history of the United States, said the Chief Executive at BP, Bob Dudley. Admiral Thad Allen, retired Coast Guard said that the US government wanted to fill the well with mud and cement this weekend and not wait until Tuesday.

The scientists of the government said that the south of Florida and the East Coast of the US will be untouched by the pollution from the spill.

In response to the spill the House of Representatives passed reforms concerning the practices of drilling to prevent other environmental disasters. The vote was very tight but the bill passed the House and it is supported by the President Barack Obama.

The Gulf Coast Democrats added an attachment to the bill to stop the break on drilling in deep water for the oil companies that has the federal approve. This break was made by Barack Obama and will end in November.

Until the Congress works on the deep water drilling bill could pass the November deadline and the Senate has not made their version of the bill.

The Republicans are warning the Democrats that the legislation would cut the production and will make high paying of drilling jobs to decrease. The Democrats ignored completely the warnings.

The sealing of the well will be made by pumping inside the well mud and cement from the bottom to stop it. Under the seabed will be a relief well that will provide a fix by pumping the materials into the broken well.

Since the cap was put on top of the well on the July 15 as a temporary fix no oil leaked. Find more about the installment of the cap here.

“We want to absolutely kill this well. The static kill will be attempted on Tuesday. The relief well by the end of the month (August),” said the BP top executive responsible with the oil spill in the Gulf and who is gone replace the actual executive Tony Hayward in October 1, Bob Dudley.

The plunging of the well will be delayed until Tuesday so that the relief well can be cleaned of sediments and debris. The relief well is deep under the seabed and will help to plug the bottom leak.

If the relief well is ready and cleaned out, BP can put cement into the pipe of the relief well and advance with the operation, said Thad Allen.

Bob Dudley at his first press conference on matters of the spill after he found out that he will replace Hayward, he heavily attacked the BP pressuring them to restore the coast.

“We are scaling back the number of vessels offshore but we are not stopping cleanup operations by any means,” said Dudley. “We are not complacent about this at all.”

The oil that is spilled into the Gulf is starting to disappear. This incident affected all the Gulf Coast and the fauna and flora of the coast and presented to Obama and BP Company as a provocation.

This bill that the House of Representatives passed could delete a 75 million dollars debt in offshore operations. The legislation would not allow oil companies who don’t meet the federal requirements of safety to take drilling contracts and also banned the BP Company to drill in the Gulf of Mexico or to start new operations.

It will set new requirements for the design of the well and high safety equipment for offshore projects to prevent disasters as the one that occurred in April with the well of the BP Company.

A similar bill will be issued by the Senate but it will pass after the summer break. When the Senate will have passed the legislation to the chambers the two will be forced to make just one version and give it to President Barack Obama to sign it.

The bill protects the environment and the workers and could make offshore drilling safer, say the Democrats.

“If you want to apologize for Big Oil, go right ahead, but the American people are not on your side on this one,” said Jim McGovern representative for the Democratic Party to the Republican colleagues.

The oil from the Gulf will not travel too far because of the big distance from the loop current which means that the oil will break down and remain in the Gulf.