I have had a hard time believing that BP will shut down the well with relief wells and gunking them up from below when there is sooooo much money laying there. Indeed I think the gov is in on a conspiracy. All along there has been only one way to monetize this well... that is to set up like you are going to use the relief well and then at the last minute say she's going to blow it's too dangerous open the spiggett.
The seal on this cap looks to the naked eye to be quite tight. They could pump to the surface and right into barges or by pipe out to another platform and offload there. The only politically feasible solution is too make this saving of the oil look like it must be done to prevent further horror. Thus the scary unstable well conditions reported today.
When reporters later poke around it will be revealed 1/3 of all funds will be going to disaster relief until cleanup complete , 1/3 annually to the local states involved leaving BP with 1/3rd initially and eventually 2/3rds of a sizable well.
That's how I see this playing out. The US drags BP along using them to clean up and fix the economies of the South. Yes they should of bombed it in initially like Russia does. Why didn't they?~ stoney