These are old shots...why are you posting them?
“These are old shots...why are you posting them?”
Those were taken in conjunction with the new capping. Note picture three taken from BP provided video at link.
http://gazettetimes.com/news/national/article_c5bd4e22-91f6-549b-8536-465d85b13ae0.html
They are not old shots. The first one is the top of the new capping device as the oil flows out of it. The second is the new cap clamping flange being paced over the newly added (this past weekend) riser spool. I watched them take the snipped pipe flange off the BOP, remove the alignment pins and then add the spool. It took them about 8 hours to tighten the new flange with the hydraulic ratchets to a hyderaulic pressure of 7000 psi.
This new capping device will get connected to an array of hydraulic controls placed on the ocena floor and starting today they will start closing off sections of the device after connecting something to the top outlet.
With all of that said, this new capping system just did not spring up as a result of the explsion. This system has been around for a while so consider all of the stupidness we have seen in the previous efforts and how reasoned this effort appears. I beleive this is what they wanted to do from the beginning but were prevented from doing so because Odummer wanted to be the one who took credit for it, and most likely still will.