What are we seeing on the live feed? It looks like a bent and ruptured pipe, with what appears to be mostly drilling fluid ( “mud” ) spewing out of the ruptures, mixed with oil. I presume it is under pressure from pumping it into the drill hole at another opening.
I believe the idea is that it has to penetrate downward so that it’s accumulated weight can contain the upward pressure. If it can’t get deep enough it will not “take hold”, and this would be the feared mode of failure, as I understand it.
Does anybody know of any commentary explaining the live feed images? Earlier this evening they showed some ROV activity, with a remote arm actually turning a dial at one point. Then it moved around and gave a view of some other equipment, but it was all a complete enigma to me.
I've been following this forum of oil bidnez folks.
Most informative.
That live feed may be a fraud like the rest of this mess — BP didn’t pump drilling mud into the hole for almost 24 hours. Quite Wednesday night after it was spewing both mud and oil and resumed tonight.
That Coast Guard person was out of line saying it worked when they were not even pumping mud at the time not to mention this Administration and BP led people to believe it was working when they were not even pumping.