[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Update ping.....discussion today at The Oil Drum.

And data from the Halliburton plan for the well.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Link to todays topic from which I excerpted:

BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Bill Clinton's Views - and Open Thread

Posted by Gail the Actuary on July 3, 2010 - 10:43am

[CharlesWayneCT]

It’s funny reading the comments from TOD sometimes. It took a while for example for the commenters to realize that the whole analysis of the weight of the water/rock on the formation was NOT about pressurizing the formation, but was explaining that the formation couldn’t be at a much higher pressure than the weight or else it would fracture the rock and leak out.

You are working to hard in my opinion, but that’s because I’ve pretty much already accepted the 11,000 psi approximation as rational, and don’t feel like I have to keep re-justifying that when people speculated about 100,000psi pressures.

But I guess someone has to do it. I’m more focused on trying to keep people from turning their distrust of Obama into conspiracies about the government trying to hide oil under fresh sand, or the whole “corexit poison rain wipes out america’s breadbasket”.

[Marine_Uncle]

I have been watching the twelve ROV's at work for a number of hours. And they are very busy putting in by what looks like new control panels into the BOP, manifold sections, rearranging piping, moving about the various sea floor units installing what could be pressure valves, turning valves etc.. And of course seeing the new cap waiting to be installed.
The ROV that was working on the BOP's control panels after completing it's work backed off moved about the sea floor slowly. There was no sign of any leakage, depressions around the bottom of the BOP where it meets the main pipe coming out of the sea floor. And the BOP looks pretty damn verticle to me. I have grown weary of all the horror stories and misconceptions that are floating about the Internet.
Real time pictures speak volumes. The BOP is not leaning and the seafloor bed is normal looking. No fissures. And it sure looks like they are going to be ready to soon install the new cap system in place.