Sounds like we’re pretty much right back to day one all around.
Removal of the LMRP cap allowed more oil to escape into the Gulf of Mexico while oil collection efforts are stopped on the Discoverer Enterprise drillship, Allen said.
However, oil continued to be collected and burned on the Helix Q4000 surface vessel. Oil directed to the Q4000 comes through the choke line of the BOP via a manifold on the seafloor and up a riser to the surface.
LMRP cap temporarily removed from gulf spill collection
http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/8644174455/articles/oil-gas-journal/general-interest-2/hse/2010/06/lmrp-cap_temporarily/QP129867/cmpid=EnlDailyJune232010.html
Not at all. There is now infrastructure in place to handle things quickly. BP predicted that the cap would be replaced in ten or so hours. And I'll bet some joystick jockey is missing several chunks of buttocks-meat.
OTOH, I wonder if this might accelerate the placement of the new "bolt-on" cap, which would eliminate the possiblity of this type incident.
As if we ever got past day one. I am not a government conspiracy person by any stretch of the imagination, but by golly all of this really makes me questions things. Especially after they have tried to shut down dredging off Louisiana for a land break. Why should New Orleans have to plead with the Dept of the Interior to try and save their own state? This makes me mad as a hornet.
No, the relief wells, continue on with their progress as well.
http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article218519.ece
Relief
The ultimate fix to the blowout, a pair of relief wells being drilled near the original Macondo bore, continue slightly ahead of schedule, Allen said.
Despite the good news, Allen stuck with his mid-August estimate to kill the well, saying that a lot could happen to slow the operation.
BP plans to intercept the Macondo well at a depth between 16,700 feet and 17,000 feet below the drill floor.
At first, BP just plans to drill into the casing to begin circulating mud, but it the drill pipe, which could still be in the wellbore at that level is providing a flow path for the oil, the UK supermajor may need to drill into the pipe as well, Allen said Tuesday.
The wells are being drilling by the Transocean semi-submersible rigs Development Driller 2 and Development Driller 3.
Ranging
Development Driller 3 is currently at about 15,670 feet and has begun to angle the well 23 degrees toward the Macondo bore.
Drillers will bring the bit very close to the Macondo wellbore and then will use magnetic sensors to locate the wellbore in a process called “ranging”.
The relief well will then continue down and relocate the bore again a couple hundred further downhole, BP exec Kent Wells said.
Development Driller 2 was about 9660 feet below the drill floor, Allen said Friday.
Once they do intercept the Macondo bore, crews will begin a bottom kill, pumping mud into the well to suppress the hydrocarbon flow and then cementing the well to plug it permanently.
Just the way Obummer likes it!
I’m becoming more afraid of this guy on a daily basis.
obama better write BP another sternly worded letter giving them 48 hours to plug the hole
Worse than day 1...its roaring out of there alot faster now.
On a more important note, Mac daddy did not go golfing today, that is 2 days in a row.
On a more important note, Mac daddy did not go golfing today, that is 2 days in a row.
Yep - day one.
Rudy was right - he would have taken BP off the job right off the git go and figured out who in the world was best at this type of work.
Yes that is about it. And to to all the freepr deniers, well you know the words.