No surprise to some of us unfortunates.
Pinging Quix.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 05/26/2010 1:49:19 PM PDT by Positive
I have been monitoring the live feed of the "Top Kill" apparatus from BP.com and after about three hours there is a definite change of events down there.
For the first couple of hours we could see several views of a very complex device rocking around in clear water.
Now there is gushing of what I presume is the "mud" plumeing.
We may get some incite as to progress soon.
That would not have done anything to help. Spelling was correct ... word was used improperly.
Yes, it has REALLY changed. I can’t stop watching!
I think this might be good! its a cloud instead of a jet of leak coming out.
Now that they have gotten this far into it I think the odds of success are 75-80% ASSUMING that the well structure down hole is intact. If it isn’t the odds go down dramatically and the closer the structure failure is to the wellhead the bigger the problem becomes.
No surprise to some of us unfortunates.
Pinging Quix.
One of my landmen (the one who showed me the live feed) says it’s maybe three feet across.
The lighter colored material is either natural gas or drilling mud.
It's Texspeak, you know, like the shangles on your roof.
Where are you watching? I clicked on the CNN link and I couldn’t make heads or tails over their live leak link. (My fangers can’t type those three words six times fast)
You are basing that on what?
Wish I could answer, but that one is outside my expertise. Perhaps the former "mud engineer" from post 75 can chime in.
About 24 hours, some faster than that.
I am beginning to worry now. Is there a possibility that the riser blew up completely?
The CNN feed looks like it is all mud.
Agreed. I've been wondering myself how they can get the heavy mud to overcome the massive force and pressure of the oil gushing out of the pipeline. I can't visualize how that will work.
It looks like that to me, too. To me it looks like the oil doesn’t stream like previously. Something is beginning to hinder it.
I know...(hat in hand, shuffling feet in the Texas dirt).
From BP’s live feed:
Please be aware, this is a live stream and may freeze or be unavailable from time to time.
Throughout the extended top kill procedure – which may take up to two days to complete - very significant changes in the appearance of the flows at the seabed may be expected. These will not provide a reliable indicator of the overall progress, or success or failure, of the top kill operation as a whole. BP will report on the progress of the operation as appropriate and on its outcome when complete.
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