Oil Rig Explosion

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Good luck with the cutting today, Oragetoes. Thanks for the updates. Reading news articles paired with your comments has helped me gain a much better understanding of what's going on than reading the articles alone.
 
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Hang in there. Good luck.

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Orangetoes said:
As to the ROV video - it looks better because this boat has a metric butt-ton of bandwith compared to the other boats. I'd tell you how much it costs per day but no one would actually believe me.
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How much it costs to stream the video feed? How much does it cost?

I get the impression that nothing is cheap out in oil land.
 
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Cutting underway.

I wonder how much one of those saws cost? Probably more than ones at Home Depot.

The operator holds the saw more steady @ 5,000 feed underwater than I do when cutting a board.
 
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IPorange said:
But he assured us he was available on this 24/7!

I am not a republican, but I am enjoying the irony of Obama starting to get needled over this disaster.
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What do you think about him shutting everything down and putting 30,000 oil workers out of work??
 
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gsvol said:
What do you think about him shutting everything down and putting 30,000 oil workers out of work??
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My understanding is that everything wasn't shut down, just drilling operations. Now, it is entirely possible that the drilling operations employ the vast majority of people on rigs - but the pumping of the 1.7 million barrels of oil we get from the gulf per day is continuing, no?
 
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TennTradition said:
My understanding is that everything wasn't shut down, just drilling operations. Now, it is entirely possible that the drilling operations employ the vast majority of people on rigs - but the pumping of the 1.7 million barrels of oil we get from the gulf per day is continuing, no?
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there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. my understanding it was only deep water drilling operations which shouldn't have a material effect, but i just saw a research report that implies it's everything.
 
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droski said:
there seems to be a lot of confusion about this. my understanding it was only deep water drilling operations which shouldn't have a material effect, but i just saw a research report that implies it's everything.
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I don't really know what the truth is, but I do know that T. Boone Pickens mentioned to Larry King that recovery operations were continuing and that drilling operations were halted. However, he did criticize this decision saying that it is dangerous to stop drilling cold-turkey.
 
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BP cam reveals giant pincers are holding the riser. What will happen next?

Some of these ROV shots look like they came from a blockbuster underwater movie, sans music soundtrack.
 
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They look similar to the tongs used on the drilling floor---the pincers.
 
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Is it because there's a leak down below the sea floor?

They're still going to try to suck oil out if they can get this to work, correct?

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Operation Sheer is really an oil collection plan anyway, not a plan to plug the well. My guess is that the first Bloomberg report is a bit misleading. They may have given up on plans to end the leak - but that doesn't mean they won't continue to try operations like top hat and now LMRP top hat to collect as much oil as possible at the source.

These sorts of operations could SIGNIFICANTLY reduce the amount of oil leaked if successful. The Bloomberg report (the first one, at least) leaves the impression that oil would continue leaking into the ocean at its current rate, which is the wrong impression, IMO, if capture techniques like top hat are successful.

I'm not sure that the nuance between plugging and capturing is the reason for the Bloomberg report, but I bet it is....
 
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Yes, the second Bloomberg article made that distinction (capturing versus capping).

But they've stopped webcasting the sheers, which apparently were having difficulty cutting through the riser.
 
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Thx! The riser head.
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"Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - 01 June. Preparations are ongoing for deployment of the lower marine riser package (LMRP) cap containment system. Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) are engaged in preliminary operations, including preparing for operations to cut through and separate the damaged riser from the LMRP at the top of the Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer (BOP) . "


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Ok, we had to cut some external piping away because it was stopping the shears from biting onto the riser. In about five minutes we'll be lowering the shears onto the riser for the cut.

I'll update more later.
 
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