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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: Pan_Yan

The only video feed that works for me is Enterprise 1 and it is just a view of the oil cloud. A couple of the others come up and then freeze frame.


4,401 posted on 06/04/2010 5:24:55 AM 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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To: Red_Devil 232; All

Local AM news in Seattle is reporting that “some of the oil is being collected...”

No further details.


4,402 posted on 06/04/2010 5:26:20 AM PDT by djf
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To: Repeal The 17th
“...the entire BOP rocking back and forth...”

I'm convinced it's just the rov holding the camera. If you watch the oil plume closely, you won't see any fanning or anything relative to the riser casing.

4,403 posted on 06/04/2010 5:27:00 AM PDT by FunkyZero ("It's not about duck hunting !")
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To: ZX12R
Looking at the live video, it's hard to imagine a significant amount being redirected. Still gushing like crazy.

While this is most likely the case, let me interject something here:
Picture your garden hose with a sprayer attached to the end of it.
In this case the hose is the well, and the sprayer is the CAP
Now think of what happens if you do not have the sprayer on all the way, or the washer inside the srayer fails or is not there
You still have a majority of the water coming through the sprayer, but the leak around the sprayer looks like it is huge when it is actually only a fraction of the actual amount of water going through the hose

This may be the case here-- because of the enormous pressure it may look like we are seeing a ENORMOUS gusher when in reality it may only be a fraction of the actual flow. Remember BO said they were shooting for a BEST CASE of 80% contain, 20% leakage.

Let's put that in perspective also --
Conservative estimates are 250,000 GALLONS a day coming from the well, That means if they get 80% containment you would still have 50,000 Gallons a day blowing out from under the cap.

4,404 posted on 06/04/2010 5:30:00 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

For those who haven’t gotten this URL for feeds...

http://www.jtnog.org/


4,405 posted on 06/04/2010 5:33:19 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Patrick Henry and Joe Wilson...Patriots past and present!)
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To: commish

Suttles is making the morning rounds saying the goal is 90 percent.


4,406 posted on 06/04/2010 5:33:21 AM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: commish
This may be the case here-- because of the enormous pressure it may look like we are seeing a ENORMOUS gusher when in reality it may only be a fraction of the actual flow.

Yes, that's certainly possible, but I remain skeptical. :)
4,407 posted on 06/04/2010 5:34:04 AM PDT by ZX12R (IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!)
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To: commish

Is there a pipe/hose taking oil to the surface yet? Or, at this point, are we just looking at a cap with no upward connection?


4,408 posted on 06/04/2010 5:37:56 AM PDT by Rumierules
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To: Rumierules

The cap was already connected to the new riser when it was put into place. Whether the pipe was open or not I have no idea.


4,409 posted on 06/04/2010 5:39:57 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Click on the following for a schematic of the plan to plug from the bottom.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2524815/posts?page=3695#3695


4,410 posted on 06/04/2010 5:40:30 AM PDT by deport
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To: deport

Thanks. It makes sense now. I was thinking they were going into the resevoir and would sealing it from that direction. (There’s a reason I am not an engineer.)


4,411 posted on 06/04/2010 5:49:13 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: ThomasMore

Anybody know what the feed from Canyon Offshore is showing?


4,412 posted on 06/04/2010 5:52:46 AM 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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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Just caught a glimpse of someone wiping the camera lens offf of enterprise ROV 1.

Too surreal!


4,413 posted on 06/04/2010 5:55:35 AM PDT by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Could it be one of the relief well sites?


4,414 posted on 06/04/2010 5:57:29 AM PDT by airborne (Why is it we won't allow the Bible in school, but we will in prison? Think about it.)
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To: airborne

Enterprise ROV2 is right at the well head. You can really see it bouncing


4,415 posted on 06/04/2010 6:01:22 AM PDT by downwdims (It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority)
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To: commish

Any chance of them grabbing the drill pipe and bringing it up and reconnecting a new drill pipe? Not the outer casing pipe. Anyone know?


4,416 posted on 06/04/2010 6:05:59 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Where is our military?)
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To: ArmstedFragg

Just saw Adm Mullen on TV. They are capturing roughly 1000 barrels a day through the pipe right now. They plan on slowly closing the vents and increasing the flow, but they will do it in very small increments.


4,417 posted on 06/04/2010 7:11:02 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: US_MilitaryRules
The BOP rams are probably partially closed on the drill pipe and what probably happened further down in the well make it impossible to pull the drill pipe.
4,418 posted on 06/04/2010 7:29:47 AM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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To: The Cajun

They have another cap on the bottom. Think they are planning a swap for some reason?


4,419 posted on 06/04/2010 7:43:54 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: Pan_Yan

It was mentioned that they have fabricated mulriple caps, and that they may try different ones and see which one has the best effect.

They are getting oil through the one that is on there, but they have no closed off the relief valves yet so the flow is very small, most is passing through the cap or around it at the moment.


4,420 posted on 06/04/2010 7:50:39 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it.)
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