[yeukhon]

If one day we run out of oil, someone would go back and ask “what if we stopped all the leaks and perhaps we could have two extra days.”

I don’t understand and perhaps I missed it... it’s only 450 feet below. Why can’t anyone stop the leak?

[vel0city]

The platform collapsed not just because of hurricane force winds, rain, and rough seas. The platform mainly collapsed because the mud it was put down on gave way into an underwater mudslide. An earlier assessment recommended continued monitoring and evaluation of the site as attempting to mess with the site might only make things worse until we know what to do about it. As you can see from the ranges given in even this most recent report, estimates on oil flow rate out of what is left of the well is all over the place as its hard to really tell what is brewing under all the mud. Essentially, poking the mud pile might release even more of a catastrophe than what there is currently going on. This new study gives us more insight that the leak rate is probably either on the high side of initial estimates or much higher than what was previously thought.

https://mc20response.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Taylor-E...

As a note this is a report hosted by mc20response.com, which is essentially all Taylor Energy is today. It has data reported from a few different government agencies, and overall this trust is pretty much just a pile of money to go towards cleaning up the mess. Feel free to take its findings with however big of a grain of salt as you'd like.

[mulmen]

It’s not a question of if they can. It’s a question of if they want to. Fixing it would cost money and it’s cheaper to just leave it so here we are.

[yeukhon]

Cheaper? They could be selling.

[hanniabu]

Not for enough apparently