Posted on 09/04/2010 6:06:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Well, in one day the progress on the Deepwater Horizon moved significantly further towards the end. First the capping stack was removed from the well, and then, after a strong initial tug on the BOP, and transition spool, they were unlatched and moved away by the Q4000. As they left it was clear that there was no pipe, or hydrates under the BOP, though there was a thin film of a liner inside the BOP mount. This was then cleaned off, and a new gasket inserted. Once that was in place, then the new BOP (from the second relief well) was brought to the well, and lowered until it into place. (There is a Youtube video of the separation with the mount and BOP clearly separated by 3 minutes into the tape.)
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So now the old one will be brought up and examined?
Switcheroo time!
(Just kidding.)
Obama is an a**.
What am I missing? They drilled into the pipe minus 2000 ft and filled it with cement. Why put a new BOP on top of a filled cement pipe?
Good question.
I still have not heard why there are FBI aboard the vessle doing the changeover, anyone have a clue?
Watched them pull the old BOP up on Q4000 tonight. Pretty cool.
Drilling into the pipe comes next week or so, hasn’t been done yet.
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