re: Links to live feeds from remotely operated vehicles (ROV)

Yeah, now CNN and BP's are the same. That looks worse, but I have no idea what I'm looking at. It just looks like shite is coming from everywhere now. But for all I know that could just be the mud getting blown back out.

holy cow

The flow is huge now, multiple leaks

For those who are religious please send a prayer

I'm not an oil expert or anything, but it looks like that leak has grown in size. There are 2 possibilities:

1- BP was showning us some other smaller leak and hiding this big arse leak seen today
2- the kill shot made things worse.

As of right now, I'll go with option 1 but give me a few hours and we may find otherwise.

its not going to just stop flowing all of a sudden. I presume they are trying to overwhelm the flow by pumping the drilling fluid at a high rate. eventually (hopefully) enough will stay in the piping to start slowing down the flow which will then allow more mud to accumalate and finally choke off the well.

Obviously they have to create enough pressure to compensate for the open ended leak/riser in order to get the mud to flow down well. Anyone care to guess what PSI they are pumping at.


Also I would assume that if the pressure is dropping that the mud is making its way down well.

I dont know shite either.

Yeah, that is some serious pressure they are putting through there. Thats whats causing it.

I'm gonna just go ahead and keep panicking until someone tells me otherwise.

relax, that's mud, not oil. it's a battle right now between kill mud fighting against flowing oil.

Ok it is back!

So we are "cheering" for the grayish mud to overwhelm the dark oil?