Way OT - BP oil spill - Live Feed - Lots of action

jd b puller · Jun 2, 2010

What the heck are they doing right now? Pulling this hose out and shoving this thing here, etc...
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railhead · Jun 2, 2010

Have any of you ever used a flexible "slip joint" coupler like when you had a jagged old cast iron piece of 4 inch sewer discharge and clamped that on then to a piece of nice round sched 40 PVC? Why could they not have a piece slighlty bigger than the busted well pipe manufactured...I realize high pressure etc....from like braided hose material and use bands with hydraulic tightners. secure that to a rigid pipe same diameter as the well casing. then lower it onto the damaged casing and have their robots tighten it and draw the oil to a collector of some sort. May sound stupid but no more than what I have seen them doing so far.

shooting golf balls into it was real bright huh?

jd b puller · Jun 2, 2010

I'd be curious to know just how much pressure that stuff is under. I figured the pressure from the sea water at about 2200psi, so it's more than that.

I kinda figured they'd just unbolt the flange on top of that dead BOP instead of trying to cut a big pipe in half and put something else on top of it (like another flanged pipe).

jd b puller · Jun 2, 2010

Oh, and nuttin going on now, looks like they are bringing the ROV up to the surface. From what I can figure there's a bunch of numbers at the top of the screen and the "D" appears to be DEPTH in feet. Going up....

Paul Wald · Jun 2, 2010

You missed it! I was watching the thing ascend myself. Pretty boring. But I think I just saw external_link in a deep sea suit on the way down!

Anonymous-0 · Jun 2, 2010

I balme the tree hugger group for this spill. There is plenty of oil much closer to shore, or even on land. but the restrictions put on oil drilling by this groupe make it almost impossible to get too. Stan

LAA · Jun 2, 2010

The idea behind the golf balls and rubber chunks was to pump this trash in and let the upward well pressure force the material into the leaks and form a ''bridge'' to stop the flow. They most likely could not get enough volume of trash pumped down the small ID line to even start to do any good. When a well is flowing uncontrolled, the well would most likely ''bridge'' itself over but this well is cased and the walls of the hole cannot fall in.

Howard H. · Jun 3, 2010

I saw one story that said towards the bottom of the hole, it was as high as 12000-14000 psi!

It said towards the top, 4000-6000 psi. I guess that is relative to the underwater sea pressure at the bottom, but either way, it is an amazing amount of pressure...

Howard

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