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At the time, BP dismissed the Energy findings as "impossible" because only one pipe in sections was used for drilling, a Tribune News Service story reported last month.

Video images of the riser when it was cut in early June clearly showed the two pipes,

Who ya gonna believe? BO or your own lyin' eyes?

[UCANSEE2]

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.

[almost done by half]

Who knows what we are watching? It might just be a bunch of miniatures in an aquarium for all we know! ;-)

[Smokin' Joe]

Nully, my own lying MK 1 eyes tell me those two pieces of pipe are about the same diameter. It is possible another joint of drill pipe got dropped into the hole when the well blew. That would explain the failure of the BOP to close, too. Pipe rams only close on 1 joint of drill pipe, not two.

Does anyone know the diameter of the drill pipe in use when the well blew out.

[CharlesWayneCT]

BP wasn’t dismissing the idea that there was a 2nd pipe in the cut-out section. They even have a picture with two pipes on their web page, where they give their updates.

They were dismissing the idea that the 2nd pipe came up from the well. They believe it is part of the broken pipe from above when the drilling rig sank.