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BP: No oil leaking into Gulf from busted well (update on #184)
AP on Yahoo ^ | 7/15/10 | AP

Posted on 07/15/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

NEW ORLEANS – BP says oil has stopped leaking into the Gulf for the first time since April.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: baracksproblem; blowout; bp; damnhole; gulf; hairplugs; obama; oil; oilspill; plug; plugtheholedaddy; prayitholds
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To: sweet_diane

LETS face it, he didn’t know what to do nor did any of his comrades. Hos goal was to stop drilling, done that now and will draw this ‘inspection’ out for a long time. The oil wells provide a lot of folks a good living or, did. No telling what he comes up with next to keep them closed down.


181 posted on 07/16/2010 5:28:50 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (GOD IS!)
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To: gulfcoast6

.....No telling what he comes up with next to keep them closed down......

The brown clown’s moratorium is merely covering his ass. He was undoubtedly besieged with admonitions to stop all drilling. The folks on the panel are the ring leaders and voices of the moonbat masses making the demands.

Moonbat demands trump the people and jobs and normalcy. Moonbat demands mean money to his reelection campaign already in jeopardy. When adequate time has passed the drilling will be restored with much ballyhoo about adoption of the panel demands and the entire incident will be swept under the rug.

Keep in mind.....he won. So long as he is there he is a moonbat tool. To prevent such in the future, he must be gone.


182 posted on 07/16/2010 5:37:00 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... The winds of war are freshening)
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To: Red_Devil 232
What is going to be funny is Obambi taking credit in about 15 minutes!

You're off by about 16 hours. He on now.

183 posted on 07/16/2010 6:37:52 AM PDT by CedarDave (Arrogant Obama on tax day protesters: "YouÂ’d think they would be saying 'Thank You!'.")
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To: CedarDave; All

latest ap update

BP capped well holding as waiting period ticks by

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100716/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill

NEW ORLEANS – BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday as a white-knuckle waiting period ticked by with engineers watching pressure gauges for signs of a leak.

Results monitored from control rooms on ships at sea and hundreds of miles away at the company’s U.S. headquarters in Houston showed the oil staying inside the cap, rather than escaping through any undiscovered breaches, BP PLC vice president Kent Wells said on a morning conference call.

Four underwater robots scoured the sea floor but had also found no signs of new leaks, he said.


184 posted on 07/16/2010 12:56:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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A combination photo shows the BP oil leak in images taken from BP live video on May 26, 2010 (top L), June 1, 2010 (top R), July 13, 2010 and on July 15, 2010 (bottom R) after the leak was contained. REUTERS/BP/Handout


185 posted on 07/16/2010 12:58:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge

that map is interesting... last time i saw nbc, their pic of the gulf had the oil spill about the size of texas ...

i knew it wasn’t drawn to scale...

teeman


186 posted on 07/16/2010 1:49:47 PM PDT by teeman8r (NO vember is coming... vote them out)
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To: NormsRevenge

I assume the oil was stopped by administration lawyers and Nobel Prize winners.


187 posted on 07/16/2010 2:31:20 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: gulfcoast6

“....could care less of what is used, deal with that later I reckon.”

As they say...ignorance is bliss. Just be advised that some experts/scientists feel it will be much more harmful to you than the oil.


188 posted on 07/16/2010 6:52:23 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: justa-hairyape

Confused, messy, unintelligent reply.

Doesn’t he realize that if you stop the oil flow out of a closed pipe, you have increased the pressure inside the pipe to the maximum possible? Nothing else to “take down the system” or “put pressure back on the system”


189 posted on 07/16/2010 8:30:39 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: cripplecreek

eventually - unless...


190 posted on 07/17/2010 7:30:40 AM PDT by smokingfrog (freerepublic.com - Now 100% flag free.)
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Today’s Update,, 48 hours in or so..

BP: No sign of leaks as capped well nears 48 hours
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100717/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;


191 posted on 07/17/2010 9:27:27 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Doesn’t he realize that if you stop the oil flow out of a closed pipe, you have increased the pressure inside the pipe to the maximum possible?

It was a very messy reply, indicating he has no idea what he is talking about.

I wonder what his background is besides the Coast Guard. Probably nothing approaching Engineering knowledge knowing Obama and they types he picks for these technical assignments. He probably has a BS in crayfish anatomy or something biological.

192 posted on 07/17/2010 3:32:02 PM PDT by SteamShovel (UTOPIA...Isn't)
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To: SteamShovel
A little more technically competent is this from
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/15/bp-says-gulf-oil-spill-has-been-stopped/
quoting a good industry reference
www.theoildrum.com

@kirkmyers says:
July 15, 2010 at 7:03 pm

“Many experts worry that the well casing below has been compromised. If so, the cap could result in a subsurface blowout, jettisoning oil through the ocean floor. They are monitoring pressure to ensure that the well stays at 8,000 psi or higher for 48 hours. This isn’t over by a long shot.”

Phil says:
July 15, 2010 at 8:09 pm

According to http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6733#comment-677659, they were expecting about 9,000 psi but only reached about 6,700 psi. It was expected to go a little higher to maybe top out at about 7,000 psi, which may be inconclusive. The lower pressure may indicate a leak in the borehole or it may indicate that the formation has been depleted somewhat by running uncontrolled for so long and the reservoir pressure is no longer the 11,900 psi or so that was originally measured. The good news is that the cap is exceeding the 3,000 psi to 4,000 psi needed to help balance the relief well when the bottom kill is attempted. The relief well is about 5,000 feet higher than the Macondo well, because the mud would be pumped into the relief well from a rig floating at sea level and the Macondo well BOP is at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

193 posted on 07/17/2010 3:56:26 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Paperdoll

They have been working on this solution since Day One. I saw an interesting report on it. It’s an intricate design, had to be built and tested.


194 posted on 07/17/2010 4:16:40 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: bboop

The new sealing cap compared to the older, unsuccessful version. (AFP Graphic)


195 posted on 07/17/2010 5:45:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: NormsRevenge
Cuba to lease oil well near Keys

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196 posted on 07/17/2010 5:49:21 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

latest update

BP: Well cap may bottle oil until permanent plug
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill


197 posted on 07/18/2010 9:33:00 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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NEW ORLEANS – BP hopes to keep using its giant stopper to block oil from reaching the Gulf of Mexico until they plug the blown out well permanently, the company said Sunday.

“No one associated with this whole activity ... wants to see any more oil flow into the Gulf of Mexico,” said Doug Suttles, BP’s chief operating officer. “Right now we don’t have a target to return the well to flow.”

Retired U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen outlined a different plan on Saturday, saying that after the test was complete, the cap would be hooked up through nearly a mile of pipes stretching to ships on the surface that will collect the oil.


198 posted on 07/18/2010 9:33:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
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To: bboop

Thabk you.


199 posted on 07/18/2010 11:38:13 AM PDT by Paperdoll (REGISTER TO VOTE THEN DO IT RIGHT!)
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