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Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:05 pm to hg
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It looks like the ROV is trying to pick it up off the floor
A BOP is fricking huge. Not to meantion that if it did fall, there would be no real recovery.
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sorry for my ignorance but whats BOP
Its the emergency shutoff value that didn't seal when it was supposed to and caused this whole thing to occur.
If it had been lost, it would be very, very, very, very bad.
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:11 pm to Volvagia
Where is the top of the BOP that had all of the oil spewing out earlier? We havent seen any pics of this since the oil cloud:
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:20 pm to lsu480
Why is this thread anchored? It is the only one that actually really discusses what happened.
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:30 pm to Volvagia
IDK...this is a HUGE development....it should be stickied.
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:48 pm to lsu480
Putting the LMRP back on the leak/BOP right now.
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:48 pm to omegaman66
Yes...they are TRYING to! Its funny how BP magically turned off 80% of the flow!
This post was edited on 6/23/10 at 5:51 pm
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:52 pm to lsu480
What they've feared is that the segments along the casing would start to cave in (something the oil peeps call "communication"). My understanding is that once the BOP started to list or lean, it was a bad sign and the "hole" that was drilled and cased is essentially being blown out. Very bad news. The flow rate is really approx 125K barrels/day. Also learned that if the hole starts to cave (as it evidently has), it renders the releif well(s) moot. When they pump the mud in down the hole, it'll be just like pouring cement into a pool. Won't plug it at all. This well will flow for 2 years.
Posted on 6/23/10 at 5:53 pm to Debaser
Ummm why did the camera just go out for a minute?
Posted on 6/23/10 at 6:32 pm to Debaser
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The flow rate is really approx 125K barrels/day
Link?
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When they pump the mud in down the hole, it'll be just like pouring cement into a pool.
Link? Because the analogy seems lacking. When they try to dump mud from the relief well, they aren't trying to make something like a concrete plug that is suggested by our pool analogy.
They are trying to generate a column of dense material above it. While I can see how a collapsed wall would impair it, I don't see how it is automatically made "moot."
Posted on 6/23/10 at 6:35 pm to Volvagia
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Link?
Its probably way more than that!
Posted on 6/23/10 at 6:44 pm to lsu480
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Its probably way more than that!
No, it isn't.
120k/day is probably close to what is even remotely possible on worst case conditions, what this is not.
Even if they removed the BOP, which provides a decent amount of back pressure, and just had a hole venting, the flow is estimated to be approximately 100k a day. And he is asserting WITH the BOP it is around 120 a day?
Posted on 6/23/10 at 8:22 pm to Volvagia
no way in hell a ROV or multiple ROVs can pick up something like this
Posted on 6/24/10 at 8:30 am to Volvagia
There is no link. If I posted where I got this info from, you would understand that the info I posted has a very high liklihood of being correct.
I'm not some left wing nut job, like a few on this board are. I want drilling to resume immediately. I have nothing but disdain for Obama and I did not vote for him. This leak is worse than is being reported.
I'm not some left wing nut job, like a few on this board are. I want drilling to resume immediately. I have nothing but disdain for Obama and I did not vote for him. This leak is worse than is being reported.
Posted on 6/24/10 at 1:15 pm to Debaser
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There is no link. If I posted where I got this info from, you would understand that the info I posted has a very high liklihood of being correct.
Whew...okay.
I should just ignore than that what you are saying makes zero sense.
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