[QUOTE=GC Resident;37604] I would like to know is there any possibility the US officials would remove BP from this and turn it over to another company, with BP footing the bill of course [/QUOTE] Frankly, no. I don’t think the other companies with deepwater expertise have any better idea how to fix BP’s problem than BP do, and they would have to be insane to take on the challenge. If another company took it over it would become their nightmare.
If they had a way to stop it, surely it would have happened by now.
Exactly right. Take a step back. If it could be stopped, it would have been stopped. It is costing BP maybe a billion dollars a week to let this well flow. They have plenty of incentive to cap it. They can’t do it. You don’t need a conspiracy theory to explain this – they would cap it in the blink of an eye if they could.