As BP makes another attempt to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (this time it’s a “top kill”), here’s their live video feed from the ROV monitoring the damaged riser a mile under the surface. (In WMV format.)
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Kragar Wed, May 26, 2010 11:42:52am |
Remember, its only a small portion of the ocean, nothing to be concerned about.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:46:00am |
So far so good, no sign of rupture or leak from the line they are injecting into. The leak cam showed about half mud, half oil/gas escaping.
Should things hold, they will likely increase the flow past the 2,000 gallons of mud per minute that they planned to start with.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:46:26am |
Repost from prior thread:
Gulf Oil Spill Update:
The current leak is estimated at 5,000 barrels a day, which is 150 gallons per minute.
The Mud will be initially injected at 50 barrels per minute from the HOS Centerline, which is 2,000 gallons per minute. There is a second mud tanker, the M/V Blue Dolphin which can deliver mud at 80 bpm, so there is plenty of flow and pressure capacity available for the task at hand.
It will, of course, partially come squirting out the top of the riser with the oil/gas mixture. However, as the BOP appears to be throttling down the leak to the present 5,000 b/pd, the mud will also be throttled, thus, the only other route is down the hole, as intended. Short of a rupture that is.
They will most likely start with 16.4 lb/gal mud, about twice the weight of the sea-water which is about 8.7 lb/gal at that salinity. Once the column of mud in the well is deep enough, the hydrostatic pressure will be enough to hold down the oil/gas.
But keep in mind, mud at this pressure can erode metal, this could open the hole in the BOP wider allowing more gas, oil and mud out the top. Worse, it could destroy the choke and kill lines, or other bits internally. Or it could over-pressurize the BOP, Wellhead, and the bits bellow the surface leading to an worse problem. We don't know how much they have already been damaged by all the sand blasting through and the blow-out itself.
I'm still 50/50 on this working. But I note our Austin_Blue gives it no chance of success, and he has direct field experience as a well-head engineer.
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Fozzie Bear Wed, May 26, 2010 11:46:45am |
Ugh. So what's plan C? (Plan A being don't let this happen in the first place, and plan B being a top kill.)
I have a feeling I won't like plan C.
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cliffster Wed, May 26, 2010 11:46:56am |
take only pictures, leave only footprints. And 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of oil.
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Kragar Wed, May 26, 2010 11:48:11am |
re: #4 Fozzie Bear
Ugh. So what's plan C? (Plan A being don't let this happen in the first place, and plan B being a top kill.)
I have a feeling I won't like plan C.
I say we try jamming the pipe with Senior BP executives until the oil stops.
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Guanxi88 Wed, May 26, 2010 11:48:43am |
re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I say we try jamming the pipe with Senior BP executives until the oil stops.
Eh, I imagine they'd find a way to slip outta it.
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Digital Display Wed, May 26, 2010 11:48:46am |
Please make this work...Today may God be our co-pilot..
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Fozzie Bear Wed, May 26, 2010 11:48:56am |
re: #6 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
I say we try jamming the pipe with Senior BP executives until the oil stops.
Sounds like a most satisfying plan from my perspective.
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darthstar Wed, May 26, 2010 11:49:05am |
re: #4 Fozzie Bear
Ugh. So what's plan C? (Plan A being don't let this happen in the first place, and plan B being a top kill.)
I have a feeling I won't like plan C.
Plan C is to watch the food chain lose its first few links, and then see how that translates up to us.
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researchok Wed, May 26, 2010 11:49:37am |
If we had a sane and comprehensive nuclear energy policy, we wouldn't have to be drilling for oil and gas on any great scale.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:49:50am |
re: #4 Fozzie Bear
Ugh. So what's plan C? (Plan A being don't let this happen in the first place, and plan B being a top kill.)
I have a feeling I won't like plan C.
Plan C is to cut off the riser above the BOP and mate a containment dome that is sitting on the sea-bed. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 11:50:18am |
re: #10 darthstar
Plan C is to watch the food chain lose its first few links, and then see how that translates up to us.
Being at the top of the food chain means never having to say you're sorry.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51:28am |
They are zooming out, looking for new leaks in the BOP. I'd love to see a little fish swim by and look at the camera.
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Fozzie Bear Wed, May 26, 2010 11:51:35am |
re: #13 JasonA
Being at the top of the food chain means never having to say you're sorry.
It also means no matter where you shit, you will have to eat it later.
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MrSilverDragon Wed, May 26, 2010 11:52:13am |
re: #15 Bagua
They are zooming out, looking for new leaks in the BOP. I'd love to see a little fish swim by and look at the camera.
I would too, if any are left alive...
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 11:52:34am |
re: #16 Fozzie Bear
It also means no matter where you shit, you will have to eat it later.
Yeah, but something else gets to do that first.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:53:12am |
Transwestern Share price is up $1.82 today, BP up $0.05.
Cameron is up $1.30 (they made the BOP)
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, May 26, 2010 11:53:28am |
re: #13 JasonA
Being at the top of the food chain means never having to say you're sorry.
If we keep fucking things up like this, we're gonna end up with a lateral food chain.
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:53:49am |
re: #17 MrSilverDragon
I would too, if any are left alive...
They are fine, the oil is rising near the leak, not sinking.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 11:54:09am |
re: #17 MrSilverDragon
I would too, if any are left alive...
I can die of laughter if it's one of these: Image: 475491-SimpsonsFish.jpg
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 11:54:47am |
re: #20 Slumbering Behemoth
If we keep fucking things up like this, we're gonna end up with a lateral food chain.
No spoiler warning?!? :P
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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Wed, May 26, 2010 11:55:38am |
re: #23 JasonA
Oops, my bad. Sorry. :(
/
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:57:19am |
Even if it is working, mud will still flow out the riser leak until they stop pumping, but we should stop seeing the reddish Oil, just the black mud.
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Digital Display Wed, May 26, 2010 11:58:42am |
OK Lizards..It's community day at the Indy 500 race track...Today they will let you get in line and drive a lap around the track...That's right I will always be able to brag that May 2010 I took a hot lap around the most famous race track in the World...With Winston hanging his head out the window..
BBL
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sattv4u2 Wed, May 26, 2010 11:58:43am |
re: #22 JasonA
I can die of laughter if it's one of these: Image: 475491-SimpsonsFish.jpg
Or this
I think the species Is Jimmicus Durantius
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allegro Wed, May 26, 2010 11:58:47am |
I keep seeing that 5,000 gallon/day number. This interview with a FSU Oil Ecosystems Oceanographer may be enlightening to a more realistic estimate.
But then, as we kept examing satelite photos, it was clear it had to be more. So we started telling reporters to ask BP to release the videos and eventually Congressman Markey (D-MA) got the video. For some reason, they thought nobody would be able to analyze it. NOAA accepted BP’s spin and didn’t use the video. But then Steve Wereley from Purdue and Tim Crone from Lamont Douherty (Columbia) were able to rigourously analyze the video using trusted techniques and they came up with 70,000 barrels. There are 42 gallons in a barrel so that comes to 2,940,000 gallons a day. That's one Exxon Valdez every three or four days."
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Bagua Wed, May 26, 2010 11:59:23am |
Man, we need pressure readings! Kenneth, what's the frequency?
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:00:00pm |
re: #26 HoosierHoops
Yay for the lap, but don't let Winston hang his widdle head out of the window!! Thwak!
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:00:21pm |
re: #24 Slumbering Behemoth
Oops, my bad. Sorry. :(
/
That reminds of something funny. If you paid attention during the movie's trailer, which a made a big thing of the soylent green mystery, they show bodybags coming out of a machine.
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:03:13pm |
re: #31 JasonA
Anyone seen the new series
V
?
If so, did the lizards land here to use people for food?
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truth stick Wed, May 26, 2010 12:03:43pm |
re: #26 HoosierHoops
OK Lizards..It's community day at the Indy 500 race track...Today they will let you get in line and drive a lap around the track...That's right I will always be able to brag that May 2010 I took a hot lap around the most famous race track in the World...With Winston hanging his head out the window..
BBL
nice.....how's the weather forecast for the weekend, going to be dry and get everything run without interuptions? GoGo Helio :)
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reloadingisnotahobby Wed, May 26, 2010 12:05:10pm |
re: #26 HoosierHoops
...Indy 500 Insurance disclaimer (732 pages)!!
..."hello Mr.H.H.,Sign here,here,here, here,here,here,here,
here,here,here,here,......and...HERE!"
Drive safely!!
Right on! That's cool!
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:05:17pm |
re: #33 tradewind
Anyone seen the new series
?
If so, did the lizards land here to use people for food?
We don't know for sure yet. I honestly can't tell you why I'm watching that show. I don't think it's that good. The episode where they blow up the shuttle made my head shut down thanks to the ridiculous plot hole no one apparently thought about.
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:06:11pm |
re: #32 JasonA
I liked kilt pol.... as in DOA campaigner....
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Spare O'Lake Wed, May 26, 2010 12:06:59pm |
Where are Haldeman and Ehrichman when you really need them?
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:07:01pm |
re: #37 tradewind
See, my first thought was of a Scottish candidate.
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cliffster Wed, May 26, 2010 12:07:13pm |
Can't they drill a hole from China and fix it from the bottom?
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:07:21pm |
re: #36 JasonA
I just wanted to see what Elizabeth Mitchell was up to after Lost. Now it's turned into one of those cheesey campy guilty pleasure things.
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:10:16pm |
re: #36 JasonA
I have to hand it to them... the actress they found to play Anna couldn't be more reptilian.
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Guanxi88 Wed, May 26, 2010 12:10:17pm |
re: #43 reloadingisnotahobby
Thanks Pinky!! LOL
Are you pondering what I'm pondering, Pinky?
I think so, Brain, but if they called them "Sad Meals," children wouldn't want to eat them.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:10:43pm |
re: #41 tradewind
I just wanted to see what Elizabeth Mitchell was up to after Lost. Now it's turned into one of those cheesey campy guilty pleasure things.
Morena Baccarrin is doing a great job of making me think of her as the creepiest woman ever.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:12:39pm |
Holy Godwin, Batman!
Top Social Conservative: Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had 'No Limits'
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Wed, May 26, 2010 12:12:53pm |
Why aren't they showing the pipe with the leak anymore?
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cliffster Wed, May 26, 2010 12:14:08pm |
This guy doing the commentary on CNN is a complete idiot. He's babbling like a chimp. Holy cow, it's like watching an SNL episode.
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Spare O'Lake Wed, May 26, 2010 12:14:12pm |
This is about as exciting as watching Wolf Blitzer.
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, May 26, 2010 12:14:14pm |
Art Linkletter (born Gordon Arthur Kelly July 17, 1912 - May 26, 2010) was a television and radio personality best known for hit shows like 'Kids Say the Darnedest Things.' Find more Art Linkletter pictures, news and information below.
RIP
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reloadingisnotahobby Wed, May 26, 2010 12:15:29pm |
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:15:49pm |
re: #49 cliffster
This guy doing the commentary on CNN is a complete idiot. He's babbling like a chimp. Holy cow, it's like watching an SNL episode.
I could've sworn I heard that guy say, "How far from below that wellhead do you have to pump that semen."
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MrSilverDragon Wed, May 26, 2010 12:17:11pm |
re: #53 JasonA
I could've sworn I heard that guy say, "How far from below that wellhead do you have to pump that semen."
The prostate, clearly.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:17:33pm |
re: #53 JasonA
Ah, that was Bill Nelson. He pronounces cement with a long "e."
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, May 26, 2010 12:17:58pm |
re: #47 JasonA
Holy Godwin, Batman!
Top Social Conservative: Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had 'No Limits'
These people make me want to kick them really, really hard. I don't even know where to begin after that.
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reloadingisnotahobby Wed, May 26, 2010 12:18:14pm |
Break is over.
I've got to give my brain cells a rest and get
back to my real job for today.......
Later
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, May 26, 2010 12:18:34pm |
re: #55 JasonA
Ah, that was Bill Nelson. He pronounces cement with a long "e."
That makes much more sense.
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tradewind Wed, May 26, 2010 12:18:56pm |
re: #55 JasonA
You mean he accents the first syllable instead of the ' ment ' ? it's a Texas/Southern thang. LBJ-speak.
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SanFranciscoZionist Wed, May 26, 2010 12:20:17pm |
re: #59 tradewind
You mean he accents the first syllable instead of the ' ment ' ? it's a Texas/Southern thang. LBJ-speak.
My grandfather was from Kansas, and he had that too. "SEE-ment", while I say 'suh-MENT'.
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cliffster Wed, May 26, 2010 12:20:51pm |
re: #60 SanFranciscoZionist
My grandfather was from Kansas, and he had that too. "SEE-ment", while I say 'suh-MENT'.
You pronounce it wrong.
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, May 26, 2010 12:20:55pm |
re: #52 reloadingisnotahobby
Grew up watching that man!!
RIP indeed!
I used to watch Art Linkletter's House Party when I was home sick from school (circa 1960). It was practically the only daytime TV show I could tolerate once I got too old for Blinky the Clown.
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, May 26, 2010 12:21:39pm |
re: #47 JasonA
Holy Godwin, Batman!
Top Social Conservative: Hitler Used Gay Soldiers Because They Had 'No Limits'
How long before this one is caught with his boy-toy?
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Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You Wed, May 26, 2010 12:22:35pm |
re: #56 SanFranciscoZionist
These people make me want to kick them really, really hard. I don't even know where to begin after that.
They just make shit up as they go along, they don't even pretend to reference actually facts or history anymore, if you back them into a corner and badger them into giving a straight answer they will just say that they "Heard it somewhere."
This never actually happened, it is just propaganda from the elite liberal media.
/
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Page 3 in the Binder of Women Wed, May 26, 2010 12:25:04pm |
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Guanxi88 Wed, May 26, 2010 12:26:00pm |
re: #59 tradewind
You mean he accents the first syllable instead of the ' ment ' ? it's a Texas/Southern thang. LBJ-speak.
You hear it quite a bit riding in your VEE-hicle.
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reine.de.tout Wed, May 26, 2010 12:27:09pm |
re: #66 Guanxi88
You hear it quite a bit riding in your VEE-hicle.
That's "VEE-hickel". The "H" has a pronounced pronunciation.
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Mocking Jay Wed, May 26, 2010 12:37:13pm |
re: #58 SanFranciscoZionist
That makes much more sense.
Either that or we've moved onto the Junk Shot...
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reine.de.tout Wed, May 26, 2010 1:01:28pm |
This 'live" video and another "live" one I'm looking at don't match up.
Do they have more than one camera down there that they're getting feeds from? Anybody know?
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Wed, May 26, 2010 1:44:57pm |
re: #15 Bagua
They are zooming out, looking for new leaks in the BOP. I'd love to see a little fish swim by and look at the camera.
A couple of Deep Ones coming by and giving the camera the finger would probably get a bit more media attention. And also make Plan C above (using BP Execs to plug the leak) a bit more likely.
O_o
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Daniel Ballard Wed, May 26, 2010 2:10:04pm |
Hi folks I just jumped in. Is that mud instead of oil coming out? Is it working?
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drogheda Wed, May 26, 2010 2:16:02pm |
re: #69 reine.de.tout
This 'live" video and another "live" one I'm looking at don't match up.
Do they have more than one camera down there that they're getting feeds from? Anybody know?
I expect they do. ABC feed a few hours ago was showing some display board that appeared to be in the command center and it had six or seven different video feeds on it (not all underwater though.)
re: #71 Rightwingconspirator
Hi folks I just jumped in. Is that mud instead of oil coming out? Is it working?
I was wondering it that was mud too. Sure looks like it. It doesn't appear to be white and grey and black like the oil and gas mixture that was coming from the end of the riser tube.
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Sacred Plants Wed, May 26, 2010 4:27:01pm |
re: #11 researchok
If we had a sane and comprehensive nuclear energy policy, we wouldn't have to be drilling for oil and gas on any great scale.
If we had a sane and comprehensive nuclear crop energy policy, we wouldn't have to be drilling for oil and gas mining for uranium on any great scale.
Here, fixed that for you.
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usufruct Wed, May 26, 2010 10:11:49pm |
The News Hour had a great piece tonight based on the work that photojournalist Gerald Herbert has been doing in the Gulf documenting the oil leak and what the affect has been on wildlife.
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Keith Wed, May 26, 2010 11:56:02pm |
Anyone else having a problem with this video freezing their browser on Chrome for Mac?
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