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Something is Happening in Top Kill Process [LIVE THREAD]
http://www.bp.com/ ^ | 5/26/2010 | Self

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bp; deepwaterhorizon; gulf; oil; oilspill; spill; topkill
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To: Positive
"I think however, that I will start using Safari (Apple's Browser) for Freeping as it has spell check built in."

That would not have done anything to help. Spelling was correct ... word was used improperly.

101 posted on 05/26/2010 6:57:42 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Mazey

Yes, it has REALLY changed. I can’t stop watching!


102 posted on 05/26/2010 6:57:52 PM PDT by bonfire (ou)
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To: bonfire

I think this might be good! its a cloud instead of a jet of leak coming out.


103 posted on 05/26/2010 6:59:45 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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To: GOPJ

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.


104 posted on 05/26/2010 7:01:52 PM PDT by Bigun ("It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere." Voltaire)
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To: Positive; Quix; All
The "top kill" has apparently failed.

No surprise to some of us unfortunates.

Pinging Quix.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

105 posted on 05/26/2010 7:03:42 PM PDT by The Comedian (Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
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To: Positive

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2521937/posts


106 posted on 05/26/2010 7:04:39 PM PDT by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: SueRae

One of my landmen (the one who showed me the live feed) says it’s maybe three feet across.


107 posted on 05/26/2010 7:04:43 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Yes, Chef!)
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To: nascarnation

The lighter colored material is either natural gas or drilling mud.


108 posted on 05/26/2010 7:05:27 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Windflier
Fangers Crossed...
Don't think I even want to know what that is...

It's Texspeak, you know, like the shangles on your roof.

109 posted on 05/26/2010 7:07:28 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: bonfire

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)


110 posted on 05/26/2010 7:07:44 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: The Comedian

You are basing that on what?


111 posted on 05/26/2010 7:07:52 PM PDT by omega4179 (www.jdforsenate.com)
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To: SueRae; Sudetenland
"Once they can start pumping, how fast does the cement cure? How long before fully cured?"

Wish I could answer, but that one is outside my expertise. Perhaps the former "mud engineer" from post 75 can chime in.

112 posted on 05/26/2010 7:08:38 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog

About 24 hours, some faster than that.


113 posted on 05/26/2010 7:09:19 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: All

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.


114 posted on 05/26/2010 7:10:30 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: omega4179
You pump a liquid into a moving liquid it wants to get carried along with it and out the leak. It would take a massive pumping operation to overcome the natural flow of the leak with a heavier fluid.

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.

115 posted on 05/26/2010 7:11:43 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Jemian
BP's web cam. Gosh! Click the link, why doncha.
116 posted on 05/26/2010 7:11:52 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: jacquej

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.


117 posted on 05/26/2010 7:13:27 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: Jemian
Crap! it looks like they made the holes bigger with the abrasive mud. Three hours ago they were distinct holes.
118 posted on 05/26/2010 7:13:28 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Don't go chasing waterfalls.....)
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To: 1066AD
It's Texspeak, you know, like the shangles on your roof.

I know...(hat in hand, shuffling feet in the Texas dirt).

119 posted on 05/26/2010 7:14:44 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: All

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.


120 posted on 05/26/2010 7:14:46 PM PDT by I Am Not A Mod
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