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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

Okay, thanks... That sounds like a good idea. I’d throw a chain around it also though and maybe use a binder.


4,221 posted on 06/03/2010 6:54:18 PM PDT by Errant
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To: bert

Enterprise one, the ROV has a hold of a valve on the top of the cap.


4,222 posted on 06/03/2010 6:55:11 PM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: commish

So, he’ll close the valve, then the hose will be connected, and then he’ll open the valve back up, right?


4,223 posted on 06/03/2010 6:56:41 PM PDT by RightFighter (So this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!)
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To: mazda77

Watching the hat rocking around on the stub.


4,224 posted on 06/03/2010 6:56:55 PM PDT by refermech
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To: RightFighter

Looks to me like they are inspecting the seating of the cap and the structural integrity of the riser.


4,225 posted on 06/03/2010 6:57:18 PM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: caww

The black american population of florida increased by 20 percent on the first day of summer vaction when everyone went swimming... :)


4,226 posted on 06/03/2010 6:57:32 PM PDT by Errant
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To: RightFighter

It looks like one of the side pipes that the ROV is holding onto. I don’t think they have shown the top pipe yet.


4,227 posted on 06/03/2010 6:57:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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I know they had to set this whole thing up on the fly so here’s my question: can all the clamps be closed at once or do they have to be turned down individually? That could be tricky.


4,228 posted on 06/03/2010 6:57:40 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: refermech

I got an aluminum structure left and right and a black flume in the middle on the bp cam


4,229 posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:01 PM PDT by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquors Czar)
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To: Pan_Yan

Is it just me, or does that look like Fire?


4,230 posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:09 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: SomeCallMeTim

Its an ROV light on the backside.


4,231 posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:46 PM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: SomeCallMeTim

or not...lol


4,232 posted on 06/03/2010 7:00:37 PM PDT by DeusExMachina05 (I will not go into Dhimmitude quietly.)
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To: commish

I don’t have that feed I guess


4,233 posted on 06/03/2010 7:01:13 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: biff
We’re gonna need a bigger pipe! /S

Then we get a bigger pipe to cover the pipe and then we get an even bigger pipe to cover the first bigger pipe.....on and on until we cover the whole BOP.........problem solved ;^)

4,234 posted on 06/03/2010 7:01:22 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: editor-surveyor

I know, I was just being facetious there.


4,235 posted on 06/03/2010 7:01:50 PM PDT by emax
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To: DeusExMachina05

Brilliant deduction sir


4,236 posted on 06/03/2010 7:02:50 PM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Ostracize Democrats. There can be no Democrat friends.)
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To: emax

well... they clearly have latched on to the riser to be able to get good, steady close up pictures... so, what now?


4,237 posted on 06/03/2010 7:03:25 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim
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To: All

Why are they doing these measures to stop the flow before they have a COMPREHENSIVE solution?

(immigration snark)


4,238 posted on 06/03/2010 7:04:11 PM PDT by Royal Wulff
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To: commish

It had a two pm dateline on it. Back in the day, if somebody gave me a time quote in the morning and I didn’t file until the afternoon, I adjusted the time. Ah well, that was then...


4,239 posted on 06/03/2010 7:05:00 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: Errant

Good idea. 2 or 3 chains and binders from the cap down to points on the BOP would pull it down nice and tight.


4,240 posted on 06/03/2010 7:06:37 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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