The BOP is swaying like I have never seen. I wonder if its seeping and kicking to cause the sway.
I think that’s the ROV swaying - if it’s the BOP then the it’s all over for this wellhead.
The ROV that is showing the BOP is swaying.
Seepage will cause the seabed to liquefy rendering the confining clay around the driven conductor (the wellhead foundation) unstable. It is called piping flow and the instability created by this is the same reason a filter blanket is used in dam construction to relieve seepage and prevent piping flow from eroding the dam.
Shutting in this well is a disaster in the making. The casing is failed, holed or suspect. The risks and horrible consequences of a broach are too great to have risked shutting in. It needs to be produced. It should have been produced to the Nakika pipeline system two months ago.
BP are idiots of the highest order. Whomever is consulting to them is being ignored or just as inept as they are.
Good job BPutz, it isn’t good enough that you have destroyed the offshore oil industry... you have to make it still worse.
Damn fools.