Drilling Pipe News Today

The government knows about it. the government could be stopping it. and they appear to be trying to let it slide without explanation. let me explain. heres what we found. the process of exploring for oil is of course a dangerous process. accidents happen. when youre drilling into the earths crust, theres all sorts of pressure that builds up below the surface of the earth. oil drilling is essentially about controlling that pressure while extracting the oil that youre down there for in the first p...

>> john harwood near capitol hill for us this morning, thank you. the gulf now. bp sais it is one step closer to killing that well. and obama administration officials have called the last 48 hours consequential. detailing how the government and the bp was able to recover 75% of the oil. anne thompson is nbcs chief environmental affairs correspondent live for us in venice, louisiana. okay, anne. so what does today hold in terms of this so-called static kill? railroad we >> reporter: well, bp go...

Drilling pipe and exploded. b.p. did not confirm that but its something theyre investigating. b.p. is keeping a close eye on the large containment dome we have heard about. 100 tons, 40-feet tall and is now over the main leak at the bottom of the gulf of mexico. this is b.p. short-term solution to the leak. if it works they say it could contain 85% of the oil that continues to leak in the gulf of mexico. meanwhile, come back live and put it in perspective. the government closed off the waterway ...

Right in the red circle. it covers more than 1800 square miles, 78 times the size of manhattan. crews are using robot submarines to stop the leak. its estimated 42,000 gallons a day are leaking. theyre trying to cap off a drilling pipe more than 5,000 feet below the surface and timing is critical. forecasters say for now the wind is pushing the slick away from the breaches but its expected to change. trace gallagher is following this. what do experts think it could wash up on the east coast? >> ...

Friday, maybe next saturday as the next round of the storms thatll come in with all these ingredients favorable. its early enough yet i havent started giving tor-con numbers that far in vance. usually i do it a day in advance. >> dr. greg forbes, a man much smarter than me, inventor of the tor-con. keep an eye on the weather channel and of course msnbc will bring you the results of the little machine behind you. thanks so much. >> my pleasure. >> helps a lot of people certainly when they have ti...

Climb up to 110 degrees, maybe even hotter than that. well be watching for that as well. looking at gulf coast, i wanted to mention the latest upindict bonnie, the storm. its now remnant area of low pressure. meaning that its no longer a depression. its just a little bit of thunderstorm activity kind of rolling through the gulf right now. >> bon year, thank you very much. im glad that you mentioned the gulf of mexico, because down in the gulf of mexico, about a dozen chips are working on the bp ...