Something is Happening in Top Kill Process [LIVE THREAD]

http://www.bp.com/ ^ | 5/26/2010 | Self

[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.

[NEMDF]

incite = insight

Thanks for sharing.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Fangers Crossed...

[unkus]

Thanks much Positive.

[UCANSEE2]

ROV CAM

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/homepage/STAGING/local_assets/bp_homepage/html/rov_stream.html

[PA Engineer]

I will keep my fingers crossed too.

[MrB]

Maybe they’re inciting progress...

[Windflier]

Fangers Crossed...

Don't think I even want to know what that is...

[Night Hides Not]

Maybe they’re inciting progress...

Sounds hugh...and series.

[Gene Eric]

Crooked teeth.

[Dinah Lord]

I've been watching off and on this afternoon too, Positive and it sure looks like something happened. I noticed at first that the yellow coupler on the BOP was canted off to the right when it had previously been upright.

Next thing I know, I flip back to the the live feed and this is what I see. I'm no expert but it doesn't look good to me.

[Positive]

Thanks for the spelling insight, didn't mean to incite an editing spell.

I think however, that I will start using Safari (Apple's Browser) for Freeping as it has spell check built in.

[Dinah Lord]

Okay, trying to think “positive” here - given the lightness in color could it just be mud coming out from the kill fill?

[GoCards]

Omgoodness, that looks awful. Does the camera make everything look bigger (hoping) than it really is?

[rstrahan]

Looks more like mud than oil.

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

LOL,,,Southern for fingers !...;0)

[Positive]

As I read the WSJ article of the process and looked at the diagram it looked to me as if they were allowing for blowoff until the BOP could be closed somehow.

When that was done, the next step would be to bury the hole in cement.

Wish the video showed the end of the pipe that we have been watching for weeks showing the oil plume. I think we might be able to tell if there is any diminishment of the flow of the black stuff.

[Ingtar]

Incite was spelled correctly. However, it was not the word you were looking for.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

Don't know how it looked before but that is drilling mud, 100% for sure.