Now, I'm no oil-well drilling engineer...

[Nitrogen]

Do it yourself; turn on the garden hose, and try to seal it with leftover fireworks.

Perhaps if the hose was undeground, and so were the explosives

[280plus]

No.  The well is done.  This drilling block will not produce until we're at a Star Trek level of technology.

I thought if they managed to cap the thing or install another BOP as they're talking about, they'd still be able to harvest(?) the oil.

[MicroBalrog]

Have I linked this video before?

Urta-Bulak nuclear strike and Grach Nuclear Strike.

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

was the second nuke to squeeze more yield from the oil field?

[MicroBalrog]

was the second nuke to squeeze more yield from the oil field?

Yes.

Well, the second video records three nukes being used in rapid succession for that purpose.

[Azrael256]

I thought if they managed to cap the thing or install another BOP as they're talking about, they'd still be able to harvest(?) the oil.

Nope.  Dropping another BOP on top may let them close the well for now, but the wellhead and whichever casing shoe blew out are too badly damaged now to allow production.  The only completely sure way to plug it is the relief well, which they will do regardless of the outcome of the LMRP or another BOP.  That will stop it up from the bottom with cement.  They'll have to re drill the whole thing to get production from this formation.

[280plus]

I see, thanks for the info! That's what I like about APS, we got experts on pretty much anything around here. 

[Perd Hapley]

And then there's 280plus, who I heard is not even that good at HVAC.  

[280plus]

That guy? Yea, he sucks! 

[Azrael256]

Looks like they just pulled the shears off the riser without a successful cut.  That's Bad News(tm).

For anybody wondering, thy were trying to clip off the riser just upstream of where it lay on the seafloor to take stress off the joint where it is connected to the BOP.  Just like cutting a tree branch off a foot or so from the trunk so that the final close-up cut doesn't rip off any bark.

[eyebrows]

They are cutting it with what looks like an abrasive disk right now.

edit: I take that back they stopped the blade long enough to see, it has teeth.