Posted on 06/06/2010 9:52:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
BP reported Sunday that its containment cap is now collecting 420,000 gallons a day, saying that was a 'majority' of the oil. But the flow rate in the Gulf oil spill is still uncertain, and BP has failed to live up to its optimistic predictions in the past.
Early reports suggest that BP is on the verge of its first significant success in the Gulf oil spill.
BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward told the BBC Sunday that the cut-and-cap maneuver is now collecting 420,000 gallons of oil a day – 40 percent more than it was collecting Saturday.
The improvement raises hope that the containment cap now fitted atop the well might successfully collect as many as 630,000 gallons of oil daily – the highest amount that tanker vessels on the surface can collect.
Mr. Hayward bullishly said he thought the cap was now collecting “the majority, probably the vast majority of the oil."
Yet the comments will be viewed with some caution. BP has failed to match its own optimistic forecasts in the past:
* Hayward said there was a 60 percent to 70 percent chance that the “top kill” maneuver of two weeks ago would seal the well. It failed.
* The use of a siphon stuck into the riser pipe three weeks ago prompted Hayward to say: “I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge.” The siphon was later abandoned.
* Early estimates of the oil flow rate were pegged at 210,000 gallons a day – 5,000 barrels – which according to current estimates, might have been four times lower than the actual rate. Some scientists say that even the current estimates are conservative.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
"Hopefully we'll start moving those ranges into a more acceptable representation of what's actually flowing, and the best way to do that is to get a good flow rate of production because once you know what you are producing every day, that's a known quantity you can take off the table," said Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, national incident coordinator, in a press conference Saturday.
The video looks the same....Tons of oil still spewing...
The vents are still open.
They are closing them slowly to prevent ice buildup and possibly drawing in sea water.
That’s what it looks like to me, also.
I don't understand how ice can form.
Nor do I understand how water could be drawn in.
I understand the concepts of venturi's, vectors and atomizers .. and I can't see how water could be drawn in.
Well, for one, it’s very damn cold a mile down.
I notice the Christian Science Monitor is adapting all sorts of skepticism and caution towards BP’s successes - but were ever so enthusiastic and positive about all of Obama ans Pelosi’s lies and exaggerations about the positive spins on health care reform socialism ....
Great for BP. You can imagine much of this technology has been invented and modified in the last 30 days. This is a victory for capitalistic ingenuity.
Its not their fault they were pushed into the least safe areas by a corrupt gummit.
Pray for the Gulf
BP is doing SOMETHING... obama is doing NOTHING.
LLS
Not really ice... Methane crystals.
LLS
“I understand the concepts of venturi’s, vectors and atomizers .. and I can’t see how water could be drawn in.”
You’ve undoubtedly seen those water bed pumps that you hook up to a garden hose. Think of the wellhead as the garden hose input. The high pressure jet creates a vacuum that can suck water in...
It’s always, always about the deception, with Obama...
HOw can they know it’s collecting the majority, when they couldn’t say how much it was leaking to start with???
They can’t.
“but were ever so enthusiastic and positive about all of Obama ans Pelosi’s lies and exaggerations about the positive spins on health care reform socialism ....”
Perhaps they learned their lesson in the aftermath of health reform as each passing week brought yet another story of an unintended/unexpected adverse consequence of the bill enacted. I realize this is wishful thinking.
>>’majority’
Define “IS”.
More ByPass Bravo Sierra
Think of freon..... Liquid to vapor. Same principal here. The gas starts up as liquid, reaches a point where it becomes able to expand and becomes gas which can freeze the hydrates. Or that is my understanding.
its 42’ down there but the ice that forms is methyl hydrate not water ice.
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