May 26, 2010
After month by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig the condition of the situation is changed from bad to worse. It leads to more and more wildlife being killed, with more and more shoreline getting fouled and a steady parade of Washington official flying in for appearances.
The experts are putting the opinion of an “Apollo 13-type effort” to end the crisis. BP has been constantly promising that the top kill was just a day or two away, but the assigned schedule goes on slipping repeatedly. BP chief executive Tony Hayward said, “We rate the probability of success between 60 and 70%”. In this case Gulf is not alone to clean up a massive mess, the time is no way handy to blame Brownie either. Each and everyone in the Capital have to share the responsibility for the spill, and everybody has to put effort to prevent another one.
Five weeks on, the charge is beginning to stick, though the White House has fought hard against the idea that the Gulf crisis will become “Obama’s Katrina”. BP is financially and legally responsible for the spill, so far company has displayed ineffective performance. Since the beginning of the emergency the Coast Guard has been on the scene and working round the clock. There are more than 22,000 people and 1,000 vessels have been at work and consistently trying to burn, disperse and contain the oil.
BP has exposed its failure to stop the spill by pleading that none of the technique which it has tried were ever been used in water of depth 1,500m (5,000 ft.) before. The work of recovery front is very slow and rarely pretty.
