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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: FreeperDoll

And this explains why, even if the shear rams and annular blade had closed in the Blow Out Preventer, curtailing the oil from entering the drill pipe above, that a severe problem might still have existing with subfloor seepage/blowout.


61 posted on 05/31/2010 3:21:36 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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To: omega4179
Incredible video of them practicing on dry land what they will be doing 5000 feet down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoPfzuqU-Tk&feature=related

62 posted on 05/31/2010 3:21:39 PM PDT by NavyCanDo (Palin will see the Potomac from Her House)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
This looks like a plain saw blade, not a Diamond Wire as stated in drawings.

Diamond wire cutting (DWC) is the process of using wire of various diameters and lengths, impregnated with diamond dust of various sizes to cut through materials.

63 posted on 05/31/2010 3:22:11 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: keypro
Thanks for the link. Amazing clear live shots.

God be with them.

64 posted on 05/31/2010 3:23:24 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: dusttoyou

Did you see the shrimp holding a protest sign. It said “Global Warming does not Exist”.


65 posted on 05/31/2010 3:25:27 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: al baby

“Now thats stuff is carp.”

Their tools aren’t any good, either. ;)


66 posted on 05/31/2010 3:25:36 PM PDT by Clioman (wHAT)
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To: omega4179

Having worked offshore for a few years, I can attest that cutting a riser is pretty pedestrian. Putting it in place is where the fun starts.


67 posted on 05/31/2010 3:28:49 PM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Red_Devil 232
That's a great graphic...Thanks

Worked in the Engineering Dept for the Water Authority in Upstate NY...Pretty boring stuff actually..

68 posted on 05/31/2010 3:29:39 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: P-Marlowe

IF they can get enough torque. If its cut the flow will be amazingly heavy.


69 posted on 05/31/2010 3:29:56 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: spectre

You can actually make comments on this link

http://www.wkrg.com/gulf_oil_spill/spill_cam/

Most of the people making comments there need some FReeper education !!!


70 posted on 05/31/2010 3:29:58 PM PDT by keypro
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To: Republic of Texas

Why cut it at the bend.


71 posted on 05/31/2010 3:32:43 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: NavyCanDo

ROFL!


72 posted on 05/31/2010 3:33:13 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Orange1998

Nope just mozying along.

With the Gulf sea floor leaking oil for millions of years, these animals are accustomed to the stuff in the water and may not be that endangered by this well.


73 posted on 05/31/2010 3:33:52 PM PDT by dusttoyou (libs are all wee wee'd up and no place to go)
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To: dr_lew
"... In fact it looks like they’re getting some binding. I would expect it, cutting into the bottom of the overhanging bend. It will close the kerf when it sags."

I would like to think the tech that's doing the cutting has had practice cutting tree limbs. Cut part way through on the compression side then switch to the tension side for the final cut. Watching this is making me crazy!

74 posted on 05/31/2010 3:36:12 PM PDT by Sefton (Marxism>Leninism>Stalinism>Trotskism>Maoism>Obamaism)
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To: NavyCanDo

best 9 minutes of my day !


75 posted on 05/31/2010 3:38:16 PM PDT by RXSalesman
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To: Sefton

Looks like they need a tree surgeon to do the job.


76 posted on 05/31/2010 3:38:30 PM PDT by Orange1998
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To: dusttoyou

There was a scientist on the other day...pretty interesting...describing “OIL” as mother nature at work.


77 posted on 05/31/2010 3:38:55 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: Orange1998

That’s what I’m afraid of. They don’t teach gardening at MIT though!


78 posted on 05/31/2010 3:40:59 PM PDT by Sefton (Marxism>Leninism>Stalinism>Trotskism>Maoism>Obamaism)
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To: Sefton

I think I just saw “looter guy” snorkel past behind the BOP.


79 posted on 05/31/2010 3:43:29 PM PDT by davetex (All my weapons got melted by a meteor!! No Sh*t)
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To: davetex

They are lowering the bomb!!


80 posted on 05/31/2010 3:48:19 PM PDT by refermech
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