[Smokin' Joe]

I will have to look in 10 to 12 hours or so. If that is the riser, any constriction or bend will increase the amount the pipe is worn by fine particles of sediment and formation material entrained in the produced oil. That would not be as serious from the standpoint of killing the well, but complicates efforts to recover produced oil.

Maybe the BP folks can monitor those plumes and use them to gauge how well they are drawing down the produced fluid at what flow rate on the recovery vessel, and more efficiently tap the riser.

[Dinah Lord]

I will have to look in 10 to 12 hours or so.

It sounds like you have been on the job - hope this means you're going to be able to get some rest, not that you are going back to work. ;^D