Smaller oil containment box lowered into the Gulf

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/11/10 | Harry R. Weber - ap

[NormsRevenge]

ON THE GULF OF MEXICO – A second, smaller oil containment box was lowered into the sea near the blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico.

The box was being slowly submerged to the seabed Tuesday. But it won't be placed over the spewing well right away. BP spokesman Bill Salvin says engineers want to make sure everything is configured correctly and avoid the same buildup of ice crystals that stymied their first attempt at using a larger box that was about 100 tons.

This box will be connected to a ship on the surface by a pipe-within-a-pipe when it's lowered. Crews plan to pump in heated water and methanol so ice won't build up.

Salvin said undersea robots will position the box over the gusher by Thursday.

[NormsRevenge]

Top Hat

A small pollution containment chamber, known as the top hat, is loaded onto the deck of the motor vessel Gulf Protector at Wild Well Control Inc. in Port Fourchon, Louisiana May 10, 2010. The chamber will be used in an attempt to contain an oil leak that was caused by the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon explosion. Picture taken May 10, 2010. REUTERS/Patrick Kelley/U.S. Coast Guard/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: MILITARY DISASTER ENERGY BUSINESS MARITIME)

[American Constitutionalist]

To put this in perspective and the truth:
More oil, gas, lubricant is leaked into the environment, the water table, and oceans by environmentalist/liberal's cars, trucks, homes, lawn mowers in one year than what this leak in the gulf would do in 5 years......

[SunTzuWu]

[theBuckwheat]

I find it interesting that the MSM has taken to calling the methane hydrate slush “ice”. Well it is not “ice”. However, it is evidence of another source of usable hydrocarbons, one that the USGS wrote, “The worldwide amounts of carbon bound in gas hydrates is conservatively estimated to total twice the amount of carbon to be found in all known fossil fuels on Earth.”

Maybe it is just too hard for the MSM to use the accurate and instead finds the inaccurate word easier to tell the public. Or maybe they don’t want the public to be aware that because of hydrates, the supply of hydrocarbon fuels is practically unlimited.

link:
http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html

[ffusco]

...According to petrochemical engineers, BP has chosen to plug the well in the Gulf of Mexico with the exhumed body of dead actor and director, Orson Wells. The corpulent American director was best known for his starring role in Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane and later as spokesman for the Paul Mason Vineyards. He died in 1985 at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California.

[Jude in WV]

Rednecks to the Rescue!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo&feature=player_embedded

[Texas Fossil]

Rednecks to the Rescue!

Roughnecks to the Rescue! Oilies are good folks, unlike Libs and Dems.

[valkyry1]

I thought it would be larger than that, but what do I know about all this.

[valkyry1]

yes but its not all out of one hose like this one is, that’s the diff IMO.

[EternalVigilance]

...According to petrochemical engineers, BP has chosen to plug the well in the Gulf of Mexico with the exhumed body of dead actor and director, Orson Wells. The corpulent American director was best known for his starring role in Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane and later as spokesman for the Paul Mason Vineyards. He died in 1985 at the age of 70 in Los Angeles, California.

Heck, use Teddy Kennedy. You know his body is well-pickled from all that alcohol, so that should prevent ice crystals from forming...

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

I really don’t think this one will work either,,,

They will have to drill wells(4?) around the leak and then

try to cap it with a “Top Hat”,,,

Another undersea pipeline may have to be laid directly

to Port Fourchon to drain down the field...