Those two pipes were sticking up out of the top flange of the BOP after they removed the busted RISER pipe. (Yesterday evening.) They then lowered a large tool which cut them out.
So it wasn't just in the RISER TUBE that this occurred, but continues in through the BOP and down into the wellpipe.
12 posted on 07/12/2010 8:19:25 AM PDT by UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)