Posted on 05/31/2010 2:38:39 PM PDT by omega4179
I swear to G-d this whole mess is going to make me into a drug addict.
Not to fret, I understand the oil will continue for the next 12 to 24 hours....lots of detail things have to be done because of the pressure and to prevent any explosion....always looks easier than we think.
CNN must have cut AC off. He reminded the audience over and over they were staying on the air until 2am.
My impression is that they are not near employing a seal yet. Incrementally they may be able to induce a venturi effect prior to any seal.
We can bank on the media making this into a cheering squad to push thru all the EPA agendas in Washington....by the time they are done there will be no manufacturing in this country....which would seem the Obama agenda’s plan does it not?
On other spills I have read where about 50% of it evaporates! With regard to oil always floating - I found this in researching the Ixtoc 1 spill - 3 million BARRELS of oil in the Gulf in 1979. The dispersents seem to cause it to sink. (Hmmmm - one would think that would have made and still be in the headlines - 30th anniversary of type stuff.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/01/gulf-oil-spill-ixtoc-ecological-tipping-point
EXCERPT:
Champotón was one of the first and worst-hit areas reached by the estimated 3m barrels of oil that poured into the sea over the next nine and a half months. The Ixtoc disaster is still by far the largest peacetime spill....
“They tried to put a funnel on top of it, injected mud and saltwater and cement, but everything they tried to put in the well was forced out by the pressure,” says Abundio Juarez. He was one of the top engineers in the state-owned company, Pemex, that was exploring the Ixtoc deposit at the time, although he was not directly involved in the control effort.....
Pemex also used booms and skimmers, and dumped chemical dispersants on the slicks. That, the scientists say today, helped reduce the amounts reaching the shore but sent encapsulated oil down to the sea bed with some initially devastating effects, particularly for shrimp larvae.”
The article goes on about how they were amazed at the LACK of devastation a year or two after the spill. Said different oils were different, etc.
Looks like they’re bailing on cap #4 and rigging up cap #3.
Okay by me if they decapitate it and do their diamond saw cut now trying for a better seal with a different hat. What’s the worse that could happen? Oil pours into the sea?
Keep the nuke warm just in case.....
“...the entire BOP rocking back and forth...”
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I see what you mean, but it is just hard to tell
without there being a fixed background perspective
it may be an illusion.
It could just as well be the BOP is sitting still
and the robot camera is rocking back and forth.
Early morning crew just checking in. Doesn’t look any better.
If it doesn’t work I’d go straight to cutting the bolt heads off and working with a nice straight flange. (If that is possible) I don’t see what is gained by saw cutting the stub at this point. Man I hope they are just waiting for something and they get this thing sealed.
One thing I did notice yesterday was that the hat was definitely rocking on the BOP. No doubt in my mind.
Lots of issues w/ video feeds this a.m.
I crashed both firefox and I.E. already ...
maybe I need a good reboot!
Your computer needs some coffee... Time for my second cup!
Oil was deep underwater and would have gone right under it.
“...If it doesn’t work I’d go straight to...”
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Back in the earlier stages of this event, at a BP news conference
when the P.R. guy finally let one of the engineers talk,
it was said that they had dozens of options they could try
all of which were being engineered simultaneously.
Among the many considerations of what got tried first was
the likelihood of success and that it should not compromise
the possibility of the implementation of the next option in line.
Thus, repairing and trying to activate the BOP,
trimming off and valving off the far end of the riser,
design, construction, and installation of the big containment box,
then the smaller top hat,
the use of dispersants,
the top kill, the junk shot,
and now trying these containment caps.
I don’t know what is next in line on the option list.
It could be something that needs that flange intact.
It could be why they wanted to leave a clean diamond saw cut.
A clean cut would have left a smooth riser with a free drill pipe inside
instead of a crimp cut that left the drill pipe pinched inside of it.
BP now has a lot more information about the well, and they now have
a real concern about the integrity of the well and the BOP.
At this point, they are averse to doing anything
that would actually stop the flow through the BOP.
They want the flow to continue and the future options
are all focused on collecting the exiting flow.
All of these things are simply to buy time for the completion of
the relief wells followed by a bottom kill,
which is the ONLY real option of actually stopping this flow.
Good morning.
Where are we at?
Good Morning,
Same request here, had to help my daughter last night with her senior project affter 10:45PM (EDT)
affter....excuse the stuttering
I don’t see any change from last night :(
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