In late April (20 - 22) there was a massive explosion on an oil rig that caused oil to seep out of the well, the oil is still flowing out to this day.
Who's to blame? Well it would probably have to be the oil companies fault that owned the rig which is BP, although the company itself doesn’t know how the explosion happened what they really don’t know how to pick it up.
There’s not that many ways to pick it up, you can corral it but that takes quiet a long time. They could also make a relief well that could divert the flow of the oil to that rig, but that would take more than 5 months to construct and get it fully operational. Still with that we would have to find a way to plug of the main hole, which is what BP has thought about, they plan to put a 100ton dome over the hole plugging it up, then have a rig suck up the oil onto a ship stopping the oil leakage.
The only problem with plugging this hole is the fact that it is more than 5000 feet in the ocean making it hard to get anything down there, so the dome that BP has constructed will only reach the bottom late Saturday night and they will have it fully operational on Sunday evening. They have stopped trying to burn the oil because it has all dispersed and they won’t use the chemical detergents to break down the oil because it is apparently harmful to the ocean life, but BP denies these allegations, so they are using it in very small amounts.
Even when the dome reaches the bottom of the ocean to plug the hole up there is no guarantee it will work - "We haven't done this before," said a BP spokesman. "It's very complex and we can't guarantee it." The quest took on added urgency as oil yesterday reached several barrier islands off the Louisiana coast that are fragile animal habitats. The oils has clearly became a problem, but we need to find the fastest and a safest way to get the oil cleaned up and the hole plugged.
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