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.
I am told that skipping the mudd satge and going stright to the sea water filler has been done many many times and without a blowout, because the depth pressure at 5000 feet deep is so great. This particular well hit a pocket of gas-heavy crude under much greater than average pressures for deep wells. ... But the reason ofr precautions and step-by-step procedures is to avoid just such ‘man-made’ disasters as this one. [As ex.: airliners have a list of things they are reguired to check prior to takeoff. Skipping parts of the list isn’t going to be disaterous every time, but it only takes one mechanical failure which could have been predicted via the check list ...]
“Did you plug the hole Daddy?”
They are just not explaining this well.
The flow of OIL and GAS has stopped, due to the injection of ‘mud’. What you see coming out of the leaks is this ‘mud’ which is forcing the oil/gas back down the bore of the well.
This flow of mud will continue until the cement is injected. Which has not been done yet.
Note the date stamp on your snapshot there says 16/05/10.
That was May 16, 2010.
Your picture shows (apparently) a stream of mud and a stream of oil.
The LIVE CAM shows two distinct streams, both appearing to be different consistencies of mud.
His ego is too big to fail.
Leni
Crude is, after all, a natural material. Not like chemicals that have been processed. IMHO, we have more to worry about from plastics than from the spill, because it take so long for it to break down.
You'll still have to know which insight you're going to use since they are both English words.
Bumping. Just looked at the live feed. They’re working on something. Pretty neat to see.
http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html
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