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BP is cutting the riser right now!
BP.com ^ | 05/31/2010 | BP

Posted on 05/31/2010 2:38:39 PM PDT by omega4179

Very interesting.

(Excerpt) Read more at bp.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bop; bp; canada; chomper; fumbles; livefeed; oilspill; topcap; topkill
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To: commish

is the cap the piece with #4 painted on the side?


3,781 posted on 06/03/2010 1:48:13 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

yep


3,782 posted on 06/03/2010 1:49:29 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: commish
And most importantly Miss Canada and bouncy girl are still banned :-(

You still have Snuggles.



3,783 posted on 06/03/2010 1:50:55 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: nascarnation

Yes, that is the cap. it will fit over the remaining peice of the riser and contains a rubber gasket which will seal down on the riser once the cap is tightened into place.

They still anticipate some leakage however as the riser is quite deformed from the accident and the shear cut, and as a result the gasket will not seal completely.

In layman’s terms the well will basically have a blown head gasket.


3,784 posted on 06/03/2010 1:51:20 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: Raebie

just curious, are the robot operators on a surface ship, or at a command center on land?


3,785 posted on 06/03/2010 1:51:34 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

YOu are an evil evil evil man!


3,786 posted on 06/03/2010 1:51:56 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: commish

Wonder if they get it on and secured and closed as tight as they can, how long it will take for oil to show up at the surface?


3,787 posted on 06/03/2010 1:53:09 PM PDT by djf
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To: commish
YOu are an evil evil evil man!

I'm an evil woman..

3,788 posted on 06/03/2010 1:53:38 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: commish

how will they prevent the ice crystals that were forming inside and clogging the originally top-hat they attempted?


3,789 posted on 06/03/2010 1:53:46 PM PDT by a real Sheila (Obama isn't even voting "present!")
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To: nascarnation

From the Oil Drum:

this is skilled skilled work

each ROV is piloted remotely from the surface vessel using a cable by a 3 man crew

1 man is the pilot
1 man works the manipulator (the manipulator can have diff tools as attachments)
1 man is the navigator

no there is no level of command as unscrew a bolt or do this.....every movement is controlled top side by the 3 man crew...

there is no reconstructed views ...a few sensors are there but none is a reactive sensor ....all sensors provide feed to the operators who operate even the slightest function on the ROV’s


3,790 posted on 06/03/2010 1:53:57 PM PDT by Raebie
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To: Rumierules

How heavy would something need to be in order to be unmoved by that gusher?


3,791 posted on 06/03/2010 1:55:25 PM PDT by a real Sheila (Obama isn't even voting "present!")
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
My guess is the “Church Ladies” won't ban her.
3,792 posted on 06/03/2010 1:55:26 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: Raebie

Thanks!

Only some jackass from Hollywood would think he could do it better, LOL


3,793 posted on 06/03/2010 1:55:54 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: a real Sheila

bigger than Debbie Stabenow and Jerrold Nadler combined


3,794 posted on 06/03/2010 1:56:34 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: a real Sheila
how will they prevent the ice crystals that were forming inside and clogging the originally top-hat they attempted?

See all the different lines they are attaching to the cap? Those will be pumping methanol and warm sea water into the well to prevent hydrate formation. Or at least that is the plan.

3,795 posted on 06/03/2010 1:56:44 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: a real Sheila

The methane crystals were coming up from the sea floor sediments.

This is a closed system, so shouldn’t be any methane, well, at least not methane hydrate.


3,796 posted on 06/03/2010 1:57:08 PM PDT by djf
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To: a real Sheila

I believe they will be pumping in antifreeze


3,797 posted on 06/03/2010 1:57:34 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: djf

anybody know what’s flowing out of those 2 stacks on top of the cap? are they injecting methanol already maybe?


3,798 posted on 06/03/2010 1:59:19 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Latest suggestion is to shove Joran Vandersloot into the riser head first to PLUG THE DAMN HOLE!


3,799 posted on 06/03/2010 1:59:43 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: a real Sheila

Given the pressure at 13,000 PSI over the surface area of the 21 inch riser, I think it’s over 2,000,000 pounds.


3,800 posted on 06/03/2010 2:01:54 PM PDT by Not now, Not ever! (Girlfriend suggested I use pelosi in place of swear words, A good idea, I think)
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