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

Least, I saw on the BP site it was a diamond wire saw....

dunno if that was it, if so, seems like they're moving fast on that LMRP thingy.

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this guy works for BP or something? I dont really understand the people that are taking up for BP here.

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Who's taking up for BP? I think mostly people who are knowledgeable and actually in the industry are just sick of reading insinuating posts from people that know nothing on the subject.

Especially all the rubbish about conspiracies.

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Who's taking up for BP? I think mostly people who are knowledgeable and actually in the industry are just sick of reading insinuating posts from people that know nothing on the subject.

Especially all the rubbish about conspiracies.

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Thank you, redstick. That is it exactly.

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dunno if that was it, if so, seems like they're moving fast on that LMRP thingy.

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I think so. It looked like they were sawing off choke and kill lines earlier today. I can't think of another reason they would do that.

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If people that blog every minute of their life on facebook and twitter can keep the world updated to the minute then Im sure BP has someone that can do the same.

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Uh, they also have a small job to do. Killing the well. Which do you want more? They update their website all the time. They give briefings about twice a day. They are broadcasting. What is it you want to know? When it will be killed. Let me help you with that. They don't know. They can't know. No one south of God knows. It is pretty much that simple.

maybe like a play by play or something for the millions watching. They are busy doing other stuff is really not an excuse. They an hire 1 person to do this. All we see is stuff on the news. I keep hearing them talk about cleaning up the beaches and stuff but we barely have any beaches here compared to the amount of wetlands.

Hopefully this next thing will work and get at least 90% of the oil. 4 days sounds alot better than 7 days also.

Hindsight is always 20/20.

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I was more optimistic when the BOP stack help pressure without blowing up or busting a new leak.

I speculate that there is something about the internal geometry that is really bizarre. I personally think there is either drill pipe open on both ends and hanging on a closed Variable Bore Ram, or that there is a piece of drill pipe hung off that is washed out in so many places that it is swiss cheese, and provides about a hundred ready flow channels.

If they could pump more than they leaked, there was always a shot. They obviously could not pump much more than they leake

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I think it's more likely the long string was blown into the BOP when the seals failed at the well head.

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is the new device on site?

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Almost certainly. If not, they certainly are not going to be waiting for it. It will be several days before they are ready for it.

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Is it something they just keep around or did it have to be designed?

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It is certainly not a standard piece of oilfield equipment. That is because nothing like this has ever happened before. Yes, there have been blowouts, so ya'll can all just settle down on that. But the asteroid hit them on this one.

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How much more expensive is it for them to sit there and pump the oil from a device for 3 months compared to shutting it down entirely?

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I don't think that is possible. Plus, eventually the metal will breach (or "wash out") if you try to pump heavy liquid through it for 3 months.

Also, I personally don't think there is that much barite in the world. Barite is the main component of drilling mud, and there is a hell of a lot of it in 18 pound kill mud.

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If the device is already on site, what all has to take place in the 4-7 days?

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The web site explains this, but let me tell you what I understand. They have to cut off all the lines that attach to the riser, because they are going to have to cut the riser off. If they don't, the cut off riser will pull over the BOP stack, and we will all be well and truly screwed.

To cut these off, a bubba on the rig has to maneuver in an ROV with a saw, thread it through a maze of umbilical cords and debris, line that diamond saw up just right, and saw those puppies off. If a blade or a saw breaks or dulls, they have to make the mile up mile down round trip through the water to get set up again. The steel they are cutting is hard enough to contain 15 to 20 thousand pounds of pressure, so it is a little harder to cut than, say, PVC pipe. And all cuts are made from a floating robot, in case that was not clear.

Then, they have to cut off the marine riser. This will make cutting off the choke and kill lines look like kindergarten. The walls on that pipe are two inches thick. I don't know that diameter exactly, but it is twenty or thirty inches. Oh, yeah, and just for grins, there is probably 5 inch drill pipe INSIDE of it that is made from steel that is hard as God's head.

They have to make the cut perfectly flat or it will not work. They have to suspend the riser, which weighs tons, because they can't let it move while they cut it.

They have to inspect at every turn. Oh, yeah, and if they make the smallest change in the procedure, they have to get the Coast Guard et al. and probably Secretary Chu now to sign off on it. And on and on.

This is hard. Everything out there is hard and takes a long, long time. That is the real answer to your question.

Now, honestly, do you feel that your questions have been addressed? I really tried. If you have more, post em.