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BP completes first of three containment domes
New York Times ^ | May 4, 2010 | Campbell Robertson

Posted on 05/04/2010 10:27:42 AM PDT by Raebie

NEW ORLEANS — BP reported some progress yesterday in its efforts to stem oil leaks from an undersea well off the Louisiana coast that have created what President Obama called a “potentially unprecedented environmental disaster.’’

Bill Salvin, a company spokesman, said that crews had finished building a containment dome, a 4-story, 70-ton structure that the company plans to lower into place over one of the three leaks to catch the escaping oil and allow it to be pumped to the surface.

Two more domes would be completed today, Salvin said, and crews hoped to install all three domes by the weekend.

“That will essentially eliminate most of the issues you have with oil in the water,’’ he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bp; gulfoilspill; oilspill
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Praying this works.
1 posted on 05/04/2010 10:27:42 AM PDT by Raebie
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To: Raebie

Ok the logistics of lowering a 70 ton water tight chamber down 5000 feet and hitting an area probably 10 ft x 10 ft is pretty amazing.


2 posted on 05/04/2010 10:30:22 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Raebie

3 posted on 05/04/2010 10:30:41 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: Raebie

Praying this works.”

You just GOTTA ask...why didn’t they already have these made up?


4 posted on 05/04/2010 10:31:29 AM PDT by jessduntno (I am not a racist. You're just saying that because I'm white.)
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To: Raebie

It will. The people in the oil industry are damn smart. They actuually do something for a living and create vvalue unlike politciians and union govt employee leeches.


5 posted on 05/04/2010 10:31:59 AM PDT by Frantzie (McCain=Obama's friend. McCain/Graham = La Raza's Senators & Estefan-Rubio)
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To: jessduntno

I’m sure that question will be beaten into the ground over the next year or so.


6 posted on 05/04/2010 10:34:56 AM PDT by Raebie (a)
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To: driftdiver

Ok the logistics of lowering a 70 ton water tight chamber down 5000 feet and hitting an area probably 10 ft x 10 ft is pretty amazing.


It would be amazing if it worked with all the currents, wind, etc.


7 posted on 05/04/2010 10:35:29 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: jessduntno
You just GOTTA ask...why didn’t they already have these made up?

They were still testing smaller prototypes...


8 posted on 05/04/2010 10:35:30 AM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: jessduntno

That’s what I was wondering.
You’ve got how many wellheads in the Gulf?

Shouldn’t something like this, DOZENS OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, already have been constructed and ready?


9 posted on 05/04/2010 10:35:30 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Raebie

Build one around the White House. Better yet, contain DC.


10 posted on 05/04/2010 10:35:39 AM PDT by IbJensen ((Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: Raebie

Fed Gov drops the ball yet again!

http://blog.al.com/live/2010/05/fire_boom_oil_spill_raines.html


11 posted on 05/04/2010 10:36:53 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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This will be like trying to lower a soup can from a helicopter from a mile up to cap a burning cigarette. Good luck.


12 posted on 05/04/2010 10:37:00 AM PDT by pabianice
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It’s a tad heavier than a soup can.


13 posted on 05/04/2010 10:38:04 AM PDT by Raebie (a)
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To: Raebie

Of course.

And let’s hope NP installs automatic shut off valves on all other wells too...whether or not they are required or not.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html


14 posted on 05/04/2010 10:38:49 AM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: driftdiver

In zero-visability water nonetheless.


15 posted on 05/04/2010 10:39:17 AM PDT by historyrepeatz
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred

Shhhh!... Keep that quiet.


16 posted on 05/04/2010 10:39:45 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: SJSAMPLE
Shouldn’t something like this, DOZENS OF SOMETHING LIKE THIS, already have been constructed and ready?

Unnecessary as every producing oil or gas well in the gulf has a sub surface safety valve and an excess flow valve in place which will shut the well in even if the surface platform is completely removed by impact with an aircraft carrier or some such thing.

17 posted on 05/04/2010 10:42:10 AM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: SJSAMPLE

There are about 5K active wells in the Gulf of Mexico.


18 posted on 05/04/2010 10:45:34 AM PDT by JBR34
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To: jessduntno

Are they building these from scratch or retrofitting existing ones? Because I know they’ve used them before after hurricanes...in shallower water, but this isn’t something brand new.


19 posted on 05/04/2010 10:46:04 AM PDT by Raebie (a)
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To: Raebie

Sounds like a plot to a movie starring John Wayne or Charleton Heston or even Bruce Willis doesn’t it.


20 posted on 05/04/2010 10:46:23 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (Pander to me for a change!!)
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