Posted on 05/28/2010 8:10:12 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
I took a break from work, and watched the live feed for a minute. I either just saw the whole thing entirely blow out, or BP is implementing LMRP or hot tap right now.
Specifically, I saw a HUGE rain of white clumps and particles which are either foam-like objects used in a junk shot or methane hydrates.
Then all of the water within the camera view got very, very dark. When I looked more closely, I could make out the outline of massive jet-black plumes of oil rising from below the camera.
At least as of right now (6:00 pm Pacific Standard Time), if you look at the live video feed below, you can see what I mean.
This is either very, very bad, or BP has abandoned the top kill/junk shots altogether and is in the middle of surgery where it has already cut off sections of the BOP and/or riser, and is trying to cap it off with a sealing grommet.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonsblog.com ...
You’re going to have lots and lots more wind turbines in Texas. Even President Texan said this week that Texas is changing its economy to wind, and that it’s something we have to hurry along.
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/bush-on-wind-oil-and-a-happy-retirement/
How many wind farms are there in Texas now? It’s going to be more than doubled in ten years. You’re going to get rolled over by history on this one.
Me and governor good hair dont agree on lots of stuff.
I say build them off the coast of Hayannis port.
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What are they attempting to cut with the saw shown in this live cam?
Texas has about 9,500 megawatts of installed wind capacity now. If Texas was an independent nation that would rank 6th in the world. Growth has slowed down the first qtr of this year.
The ROV is headed to the surface with a saw right now.
Try the high end stuff from other countries now available in most supermarkets, you'll never go back.
Way worth the extra $.
Some is even from cows who actually eat what nature intended, grass & herbs!
If you get unpast. & unhomo'd, even better (good enzymes, etc.).
Everyone, including BP, knows that the well is flowing outside the pipe. It has been talked about for days on the threads at http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6519#more .
Some of the folks posting there actually know what they are talking about.
Live feed is showing black plume. Does not look like the efforts are working to good.
Some kind of servo controlled flexible end clamp on a riser.
They have the technology laying around to have done this a month ago.
Either stupidity is running the show or some grand evil green design is in place.
That fact was recognized and discussed almost from the beginning here at FR.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2498826/posts
Vacation!
Flow from the Macondo well is not travelling up the main well bore, BP operations boss Doug Suttles said Tuesday, a revelation that supports theories that a cement failure played a part in the blowout.
“We actually believe the flow path is between two strings of the casing and not up the main wellbore,” Suttles said.
Suttles said BP could not be certain of the flow path but diagnostic tests on the well seem to indicate the flow is not coming up main bore.
As I recall, at the very beginning of the leak, it was mentioned that the company supplying the chemicals was/is in Chicago. Go figure!
FWIW, my intial reaction was sabotage! I've not given up on that thought...yet!
If any of you are into the geeky science (pascals,etc) of the BP Leak and how to plug it, here’ s a couple of lectures by Physics Professor friend of mine at UNLV, Mike Pravica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t6ufE51hpo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1lzj25SRww
You know as well as I that they did notice, but the wrong people ( money people) made decisions instead of the drilling folks.
I made my coins in the oil industry and most of my friends make their coins in the oil industry. Thanks to BP's greediness the oil industry is badly damaged now.
Friends in the industry are looking at large layoffs in the very near future. A relative has already had his hours cut and is looking at a layoff.
Oilfield workers are now in the same shape as fishermen, shrimpers and oyster men. They may be in worst shape because the only thing they will get is being laid off.
Another thing that pi$$es me off is the rumor being circulated that the current state of the art in the industry can't handle drilling a well like this. This is pure BS. The technology available was NOT used because of BP greed. This would have never happened if proper procedure was used.
How to stop this sort of thing in the future:
1. Make BP pay for every damn thing they have caused, even if they go broke.
2. Whoever made the bad decisions in BP goes to jail (and I don't mean some low level scapegoat).
3. Whoever in the government MM division that allowed BP to use bad procedures goes to jail.
Believe me if you have a major oil company going broke or nearly going broke and the clowns that made the bad decisions (higher ups with BP and the government) going to jail, this will not happen again. Fear alone will cause the industry to correct itself, not Obummer stopping drilling and trying to pass a thousand pages of redtape mostly useless laws.
Thanks to BP greed and the idiot commie Kenyan in the White Hut, the country will be entering a 9 line energy bind very quickly.
Rant over ;^)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/us/30spill.html?hp=&pagewanted=print
May 29, 2010
Effort to Plug Well Faces Another Setback
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and LESLIE KAUFMAN
HOUSTON — BP engineers failed again to plug the gushing oil well on Saturday, a technician working on the project said, representing yet another setback in a series of unsuccessful procedures the company has tried a mile under the sea to stem the flow spreading into the Gulf of Mexico.
Tell me, why does "the industry" need to "correct itself"?
The "industry" has an excellent safety record. This was a one-off occurrence under difficult conditions. Nothing like it has ever happened before (unless Pemex was involved).
In this case, BP may well be responsible and, thus, due some serious consequences. But I fail to see how that stains an entire industry of refiners, producers, drilling, seismic and service companies.
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