Damn the torpedoes. Full Steam Ahead!
A pressure gauge is shown in this image captured from a BP live video as BP launches a critical pressure test on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on July 15, 2010. REUTERS/BP/Handout
Damn the torpedoes. Full Steam Ahead!
A pressure gauge is shown in this image captured from a BP live video as BP launches a critical pressure test on its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well on July 15, 2010. REUTERS/BP/Handout
ap article has been updated, same link.
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Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber - ap
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100715/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill
NEW ORLEANS – A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three months, BP said Thursday. The victory — long awaited by weary residents along the coast — is the most significant milestone yet in BP’s effort to control one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.
Kent Wells, a BP PLC vice president, said at a news briefing that oil stopped flowing into the water at 2:25 p.m. CDT after engineers gradually dialed down the amount of crude escaping through the last of three valves in the 75-ton cap.
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The stoppage came 85 days, 16 hours and 25 minutes after the first report April 20 of an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that killed 11 workers and triggered the spill.
Once AGAIN, that is the pressure indicator for the hydralic equipment, NOT the well.
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The ROV pressure gauges are useless. They monitor the internal pressure with transducers that send signals up to the rigs or offices on land. That data is in raw format and needs to be run through an algorithm to be useful. So they are looking at computer screens to see the converted pressure values.
BP has said that there are no gages that the ROVs will be able to see. There are pressure transducers inside the Seal Cap that will send the measurments to surface ships every 12 seconds. Watching a gage from a ROV vid is useless.