To my unenlightened, non-oilfield savvy eye... 
this does not look good!
Posted on 05/28/2010 7:42:25 AM PDT by Hojczyk
This is yet another update and comment thread, talking this time about restarting the mud and the events that follow. Caution is needed in interpreting results. I find in reviewing my analyses that I was at times misled by appearances of transparency, when it really wasn't there.
OK, I see a mechanical arm moving around like they are trying to hook up something else.? What are they trying to do now?
Working in the control room for the ROVs has got to be the most exciting job on the planet!
Link isn’t working.
I pick it up from the bp.com page.
The situation is so confused now that nobody knows what the hell is going on.
The Incident Coordinator is making Baghdad Bob-type statements like “The flow is now stopped; be confident that it is plugged for now” while people watching the ROV video are seeing explosions, pieces of metal and rubber flying around, glimpses of a geyser of oil/gas/mud that they seem to be trying to keep out of view and lord knows what else.
The Incident Coordinator is making Baghdad Bob-type statements like “The flow is now stopped; be confident that it is plugged for now” while people watching the ROV video are seeing explosions, pieces of metal and rubber flying around, glimpses of a geyser of oil/gas/mud that they seem to be trying to keep out of view and lord knows what else.
If that’s indeed the case, I wouldn’t be pleased.
I see that things are moving along nicely since O’mama took control of the situation.
Barry should celebrate with a round of golf and a Colt 45 on the 19th.
To my unenlightened, non-oilfield savvy eye... this does not look good!
In his own words Obama owns the top-kill operation:
“Now, when it comes to what’s happening on the surface, we’ve been much more involved in the in situ burns, in the skimming. Those have been happening more or less under our direction. And we feel comfortable about many of the steps that have been taken. There have been areas where there have been disagreements. I’ll give you two examples.
Initially on this top kill, you know, there were questions in terms of how effective it could be. But also what were the risks involved? Because we’re operating at such a pressurized level, a mile underwater, and at such frigid temperatures that the reactions of various compounds and various approaches had to be calibrated very carefully.
That’s when I sent Steven Chu down, the secretary of Energy, and he brought together a team — basically, a brain trust, some of the smartest folks we have at the national labs and in academia — to essentially serve as a oversight board with BP engineers and scientists in making calculations about how much mud could you pour down, how fast, without risking potentially the whole thing blowing.
So in that situation, you’ve got the federal government directly overseeing what BP is doing, and Thad Allen is giving authorization when finally we feel comfortable that the risks of attempting a top kill, for example, are — are sufficiently reduced that it needs to be tried.”
I’m not sure they have a clue how to plug this.
Not as clear as when I started posting this, but the black plume is behind the dark brown one.
they need to get Bill Clinton off the Sestak sham and onto the oil sham-- After all, think of what old Billie Boy has plugged before... 
with just a cigar!
It's Day 39. Do you know where your President is?
Looks like a flush I made a couple hours ago, but when I pulled the chain it were gone.
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