You still have Snuggles.
Posted on 05/31/2010 2:38:39 PM PDT by omega4179
Very interesting.
(Excerpt) Read more at bp.com ...
is the cap the piece with #4 painted on the side?
yep
You still have Snuggles.
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.
just curious, are the robot operators on a surface ship, or at a command center on land?
YOu are an evil evil evil man!
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?
I'm an evil woman..
how will they prevent the ice crystals that were forming inside and clogging the originally top-hat they attempted?
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
How heavy would something need to be in order to be unmoved by that gusher?
Thanks!
Only some jackass from Hollywood would think he could do it better, LOL
bigger than Debbie Stabenow and Jerrold Nadler combined
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.
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.
I believe they will be pumping in antifreeze
anybody know what’s flowing out of those 2 stacks on top of the cap? are they injecting methanol already maybe?
Latest suggestion is to shove Joran Vandersloot into the riser head first to PLUG THE DAMN HOLE!
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.
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