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Report Copyright Violation Re: The BP Deep water horizon, Macondo Well Blowout. and what we are facing in the Gulf. Bp can promise the moon. Promises cost nothing and are good PR. You have to have leverage to get them to move on those promises. Without a way to pressure them to keep their promises, time will pass and BP will never do what they have promised to do. Keep their feet to the fire. Make them make it right.

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<Hayward's remarks were broadcast on television. "We are going to put the Gulf Coast right and back to normal as fast as we can," Hayward said. "We will clean every last drop of oil off the shore. We will remediate the environmental damage. And we will put the Gulf Coast right and back to normality as fast as we can."

[link to www.rigzone.com]> Bp can promise the moon. Promises cost nothing and are good PR. You have to have leverage to get them to move on those promises. Without a way to pressure them to keep their promises, time will pass and BP will never do what they have promised to do. Keep their feet to the fire. Make them make it right....

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The BP Deep water horizon, Macondo Well Blowout. and what we are facing in the Gulf. Lets say you have a tank holding a liquid of known specific gravity. And let's say you have a spout coming off the top that is a known height above the tank providing static head.

Let's also say that this tank is valved at the spout to release a relatively constant flow at a constant pressure. For the purposes of this exercise, it doesn't matter what the pressure is, as long as it is greater than ambient.



(The pressure on the tank is essentially constant only if you have a large enough tank, or if your tank has an expansive/compressive gas in it which is compressed to the pressure level of the tank and it free to expand as the liquid is depleted.)



Now, let's say you decided to immediately shut the valve, stopping the flow.



What happens?



I know what happens, and so do the engineers at BP. There will be no top kill attempted, except as maybe a public display.

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Let me put on a display of my dumbness and borrow a plumbers term...."Water Hammer"? lol...I bet you know a cooler term for the pressure wave generated when a moving fluid is suddenly stopped.



Ya know I've been meaning to ask you something that is bugging me...ok so from what I have seen the riser is not really laying flat down from the bop to the end leak we see on the feeds...in fact...I have read that it actually goes up a good amount...like about 1500 feet good amount....out of the bop...hits the seabed...bends heading up like a sine wave...all the way up to about 1500 feet off the sea floor...then back down...stabs some into the floor...then trails away some...ending where we see it...but not just taking the shortest path to the leak by far....a few of the illustrations around from BP do show this...some don't...



Now aside from obvious that it would be a nice crank handle in current and I assume is tied off to a surface vessel...and how like really extra bad that would be if a tropical cyclone did show up and the ships booked ass....but aside from all that....



Just what affect would that have on the expansion of the gas in flow?...I assume it's going to increase in volume around 50x it's original, but does it just re-compress again?....what would do to velocity at the end... or just self cancel?



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War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... ____________________________________________________E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [ link to www.showmemyip.com Let me put on a display of my dumbness and borrow a plumbers term...."Water Hammer"? lol...I bet you know a cooler term for the pressure wave generated when a moving fluid is suddenly stopped.Ya know I've been meaning to ask you something that is bugging me...ok so from what I have seen the riser is not really laying flat down from the bop to the end leak we see on the feeds...in fact...I have read that it actually goes up a good amount...like about 1500 feet good amount....out of the bop...hits the seabed...bends heading up like a sine wave...all the way up to about 1500 feet off the sea floor...then back down...stabs some into the floor...then trails away some...ending where we see it...but not just taking the shortest path to the leak by far....a few of the illustrations around from BP do show this...some don't...Now aside from obvious that it would be a nice crank handle in current and I assume is tied off to a surface vessel...and how like really extra bad that would be if a tropical cyclone did show up and the ships booked ass....but aside from all that....Just what affect would that have on the expansion of the gas in flow?...I assume it's going to increase in volume around 50x it's original, but does it just re-compress again?....what would do to velocity at the end... or just self cancel?

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Report Copyright Violation Re: The BP Deep water horizon, Macondo Well Blowout. and what we are facing in the Gulf. This is for sure a big blowout but that's all it is. Blowouts have occurred in the past and will again in the future. If the well had been cemented then long string had been run, this is casing not drill pipe in the hole. Compared to drill pipe, casing is thinner and easier to crush or cut. No matter which method of controlling the well you choose you still have to get back into the casing, only way to do that is to cut off the bent or crushed portion so you have a regular full gauge opening looking up. If you have that then you can consider what size pipe you can get down hole through the casing or maybe an overshot which goes over the outside of the casing and can be used as a guide to get back in the hole. Ideally a packer can be run down hole also otherwise your weight mud will be blown out as fast as it is pumped in. I have set cast iron bridge plugs by the hundred over the ten years I worked for a wire line company. In certain ways this is less complicated than if it were on the surface. Most of the time fire or explosion is a constant hazard with any blowout or even a kick, not in this case. I don't know why none of the conventional time proven methods of controlling have been tried, instead this is looking more and more like a Wiley Coyote cartoon except with dire consequences of course. As well as a wire line I have another ten years as a mud engineer and when I put that hat on I see no way this should have be allowed to occur. Explosives even if you succeed in getting them down hole would likely only serve to frac the well which is a procedure normally used to enhance production, not the direction we want to go at this point.

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They could just disconnect the lmrp too and the whole thing is wide open...problem is it's blowing about 160k+ barrels a day then...110 a min maybe more, a lot of people think it's blowing that much or near now...and it's severely restricted....and all they have is ROVs to work with. No one seems be talking about the actual connection of the bop to well head...it must have gotten cranked on pretty bad with all the leverage of the riser when the rig went down...I really think they are scared shitless of touching the whole thing...and that might be rightfully so...



If they do try this kill mud deal...which I think they may really back off completely...but we'll see...I believe they plan on pushing 40 barrels a min down...and through the 2 3" choke and kill ports that'll be a feat of it's own....so they are figuring it's pushing less than 40bpm now...how much less...got me...but if it blows the riser off and rips what let of the bop guts out and triples or more like quadruples? They aren't going to have anything that will kill it from up top...and with that increased flow?....I don't know if 2 relief wells would do it...



I assume they think 2 wells are enough to kill a wipe open blow out...but they haven't had a stellar track record of guessing right on this one....



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War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... ____________________________________________________E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [ link to www.showmemyip.com They could just disconnect the lmrp too and the whole thing is wide open...problem is it's blowing about 160k+ barrels a day then...110 a min maybe more, a lot of people think it's blowing that much or near now...and it's severely restricted....and all they have is ROVs to work with. No one seems be talking about the actual connection of the bop to well head...it must have gotten cranked on pretty bad with all the leverage of the riser when the rig went down...I really think they are scared shitless of touching the whole thing...and that might be rightfully so...If they do try this kill mud deal...which I think they may really back off completely...but we'll see...I believe they plan on pushing 40 barrels a min down...and through the 2 3" choke and kill ports that'll be a feat of it's own....so they are figuring it's pushing less than 40bpm now...how much less...got me...but if it blows the riser off and rips what let of the bop guts out and triples or more like quadruples? They aren't going to have anything that will kill it from up top...and with that increased flow?....I don't know if 2 relief wells would do it...I assume they think 2 wells are enough to kill a wipe open blow out...but they haven't had a stellar track record of guessing right on this one....

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Good website here. Lot's of screen shots. He got captures of the explosion or new venting I posted up about in the very early hours. Quoting: Texas Uncensored

Well every time the current shifts the sea floor has collapsed, the bop exploded...so far all of it either exploded or collapsed about 20 times....it's also been under constant attack by "Orbs" and mysterious white flakes too...lol...remember...we have a LOT of our guys out there too...I guarantee you that every ship out there is crawling with every agency there is...so nobody is going to be falling for a banana in the tail pipe...lol...probably the most heavily monitored video feeds in the country right now...if you see that flow STOP for no known reason?....then it's time for panic sex...:)



Also most of that "Sea floor" around that pipe is more like hydrate snow....so it will get blown around time to time...I'm sure they don't want it getting too buried...



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Gibbs opens door to criminal probe in Gulf of Mexico oil spill

By Ben Geman - 05/23/10 11:36 AM ET



White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Sunday suggested that the Justice Department may explore criminal charges related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.



“I think the Justice Department has been down in the Gulf to look at and to gather information on this,” Gibbs said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” when asked whether a criminal probe may be opened.



He did not provide any details, and emphasized that the administration’s current priority is stopping the ongoing spill from oil giant BP’s damaged undersea well.



Several Senate Democrats have called for a criminal inquiry in the wake of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig and subsequent spill.



Last Monday, eight members of the Environment and Public Works Committee wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to explore whether BP made “false and misleading statements to the federal government regarding its ability to respond to oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.”



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I posted this up right before calling it a night at the time posted.5/24/2010 5:55 AMBy Ben Geman - 05/23/10 11:36 AM ETWhite House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Sunday suggested that the Justice Department may explore criminal charges related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.“I think the Justice Department has been down in the Gulf to look at and to gather information on this,” Gibbs said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” when asked whether a criminal probe may be opened.He did not provide any details, and emphasized that the administration’s current priority is stopping the ongoing spill from oil giant BP’s damaged undersea well.Several Senate Democrats have called for a criminal inquiry in the wake of the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig and subsequent spill.Last Monday, eight members of the Environment and Public Works Committee wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to explore whether BP made “false and misleading statements to the federal government regarding its ability to respond to oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.”Link to story on the Senate Quoting: Texas Uncensored

Eric Folder should investigate Obama for making false and misleading statements...lol....see ya in about a decade when ya get done writing THAT one up..or find the 2 things he's actually said that weren't total BS and just write those down and say, "everything else minus these"...lol..



Fuckin pathetic response from these nimrods...who can we sue, who can we blame!...it's all they HAVE done...except stare the oil as it comes ashore....Obama could exec order those sand bars that Jindal is screaming about tomorrow...but nooo...we'll do a study and appoint a commision...stfu Jindal ya pain in the ass...eat some oil gumbo...



Lucky a well didn't blowout in Arizona or we probably would have dropped 10 MOABS on Phoenix by now...



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When people say "Wire line"...like "Wire line services"...it means various instruments that get fed down the well bore in a wire...usually acoustic imaging equipment that uses sound waves to inspect the well casings and the cement that holds them together and goes around the outside between the earth and the casing sleeves..it's an inspection process....



All the rams and all the controls were tried by the ROV's...the blow out preventer didn't work...it tried to it seems, but couldn't close...so there is no wire that can be found or attached that will do anything that hasn't been done already...in fact they gave up on getting it to work a while ago...that cut off valve machine on the well head (bop) is a dead stick for what it's worth...it couldn't do the job...



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I don't mean a tsunami, but a catastophic reaction underground.

If the flow suddenly stops, are we looking at something like when the ocean goes out before a tsunami? Not a good analogy, butI don't mean a tsunami, but a catastophic reaction underground. Quoting: Texas Uncensored

If the flow on the Cam suddenly stops for no known reason...it means it isn't attached to anything anymore....and that is real bad news...it would probably mean the riser blew off the bop...very bad....or the bop itself train wrecked....very very bad....other things get worse from very very bad...



If they stop it too fast like FT was saying?...it could create a pressure wave, but we'll probably know that is coming....like a water hammer in a house when the pipes slam around on some faucets...most have a device to stop that now, but some houses still slam the pipes...and that can make them break connections...what it could do here?....who knows. I'm sure the engineers know about that...among other risks.



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War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... ____________________________________________________E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [ link to www.showmemyip.com If the flow on the Cam suddenly stops for no known reason...it means it isn't attached to anything anymore....and that is real bad news...it would probably mean the riser blew off the bop...very bad....or the bop itself train wrecked....very very bad....other things get worse from very very bad...If they stop it too fast like FT was saying?...it could create a pressure wave, but we'll probably know that is coming....like a water hammer in a house when the pipes slam around on some faucets...most have a device to stop that now, but some houses still slam the pipes...and that can make them break connections...what it could do here?....who knows. I'm sure the engineers know about that...among other risks.

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Fuckin pathetic response from these nimrods...who can we sue, who can we blame!...it's all they HAVE done...except stare the oil as it comes ashore....Obama could exec order those sand bars that Jindal is screaming about tomorrow...but nooo...we'll do a study and appoint a commision...stfu Jindal ya pain in the ass...eat some oil gumbo...



Lucky a well didn't blowout in Arizona or we probably would have dropped 10 MOABS on Phoenix by now...

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Obama is all BS. A tool, and nothing more. BP paid bigtime money to get him elected. His lack of action is no surprise. He can say BP is the responsible party all he wants, but that doesn't get anything done.

Just lips flapping in the wind. LOL



I may be naive, but if it were me sitting in the oval office, not only would I be holding BP responsible, I'd be calling up the most brilliant people we have, bringing in the high tech, and doing whatever could be done to kill this well. Plenty of time to hang these people later.



I think BP's early arrogance is being replaced by fear. Rightly so.



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I don't mean a tsunami, but a catastophic reaction underground.



If the flow on the Cam suddenly stops for no known reason...it means it isn't attached to anything anymore....and that is real bad news...it would probably mean the riser blew off the bop...very bad....or the bop itself train wrecked....very very bad....other things get worse from very very bad...



If they stop it too fast like FT was saying?...it could create a pressure wave, but we'll probably know that is coming....like a water hammer in a house when the pipes slam around on some faucets...most have a device to stop that now, but some houses still slam the pipes...and that can make them break connections...what it could do here?....who knows. I'm sure the engineers know about that...among other risks.

If the flow suddenly stops, are we looking at something like when the ocean goes out before a tsunami? Not a good analogy, butI don't mean a tsunami, but a catastophic reaction underground.If the flow on the Cam suddenly stops for no known reason...it means it isn't attached to anything anymore....and that is real bad news...it would probably mean the riser blew off the bop...very bad....or the bop itself train wrecked....very very bad....other things get worse from very very bad...If they stop it too fast like FT was saying?...it could create a pressure wave, but we'll probably know that is coming....like a water hammer in a house when the pipes slam around on some faucets...most have a device to stop that now, but some houses still slam the pipes...and that can make them break connections...what it could do here?....who knows. I'm sure the engineers know about that...among other risks. Quoting: SHR



As long as the cams are up, we'll see it coming if the worst happens. So far, it looks intact but battered. I was watching as the vent from the ground spewed, and thought the show was about to pan to high drama.





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What's that smell? Did one of you fart or is that the methane from the gulf?

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The sooner its stopped is a plus for life, and the longer its left too flow, the greater number of deaths will eventually result.



That spill barrel ticker, is also a death counter.

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I've put everything back into proper chronological order, and have begun adding images and video for documentary purposes.



I've been watching the live Spillcam, and discussing it with folks, here all day long. About 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. It started earlier than that, actually-- see pic a few posts down. About 1am this morning, the eruptions began to increase in spew volume.

Pics of Sea Floor CollapseI've put everything back into proper chronological order, and have begun adding images and video for documentary purposes.I've been watching the live Spillcam, and discussing it with folks, here all day long. About 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. It started earlier than that, actually-- see pic a few posts down. About 1am this morning, the eruptions began to increase in spew volume. Quoting: Sea Floor Collapse Now 959927 It would be cool if SHR could snag a few of these pics and embed them in the thread. Unless they are already on it.

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I've put everything back into proper chronological order, and have begun adding images and video for documentary purposes.



I've been watching the live Spillcam, and discussing it with folks, here all day long. About 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. It started earlier than that, actually-- see pic a few posts down. About 1am this morning, the eruptions began to increase in spew volume.



It would be cool if SHR could snag a few of these pics and embed them in the thread. Unless they are already on it.Pics of Sea Floor CollapseI've put everything back into proper chronological order, and have begun adding images and video for documentary purposes.I've been watching the live Spillcam, and discussing it with folks, here all day long. About 5pm last night, we all started taking note of gas bubbling out of the seabed floor. It started earlier than that, actually-- see pic a few posts down. About 1am this morning, the eruptions began to increase in spew volume. Quoting: New Pics 959927

Bump for great pics at link. Bump for great pics at link.

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Being progressed in parallel with plans for the top kill is development of a lower marine riser package (or LMRP) cap containment option. This would first involve removing the damaged riser from the top of the BOP, leaving a cleanly-cut pipe at the top of the BOP’s LMRP. The LMRP cap, an engineered containment device with a sealing grommet, would be connected to a riser from the Discoverer Enterprise drillship and then placed over the LMRP with the intention of capturing most of the oil and gas flowing from the well and transporting it to the drillship on the surface. The LMRP cap is already on site and it is anticipated that this option will be available for deployment by the end of May.



Additional options also continue to be progressed, including the option of lowering a second blow-out preventer, or a valve, on top of the MC 252 BOP. Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response - 25 MayBeing progressed in parallel with plans for the top kill is development of a lower marine riser package (or LMRP) cap containment option. This would first involve removing the damaged riser from the top of the BOP, leaving a cleanly-cut pipe at the top of the BOP’s LMRP. The LMRP cap, an engineered containment device with a sealing grommet, would be connected to a riser from the Discoverer Enterprise drillship and then placed over the LMRP with the intention of capturing most of the oil and gas flowing from the well and transporting it to the drillship on the surface. The LMRP cap is already on site and it is anticipated that this option will be available for deployment by the end of May.Additional options also continue to be progressed, including the option of lowering a second blow-out preventer, or a valve, on top of the MC 252 BOP.

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Being progressed in parallel with plans for the top kill is development of a lower marine riser package (or LMRP) cap containment option. Update on Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response - 25 MayBeing progressed in parallel with plans for the top kill is development of a lower marine riser package (or LMRP) cap containment option. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 962698

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BP on Tuesday provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico.



Subsea efforts continue to focus on progressing options to stop the flow of oil from the well through interventions via the MC252 blow out preventer (BOP) and to collect the flow of oil from the leak points. These efforts are being carried out in conjunction with industry experts and governmental authorities.



Plans have been developed for a series of interventions via the BOP; it is currently anticipated these may be carried out over a period of about a week, commencing in the next few days. These interventions have not been carried out at these depths and conditions before and the success of individual options cannot be assured.



The first planned intervention is the so-called top kill operation where heavy drilling fluids would be injected into the well to stem the flow of oil and gas and, ultimately, kill the well. Most of the equipment is on site and preparations for this operation continue, with a view to deployment within a few days. If necessary, equipment is also in place to combine this operation with the injection under pressure of bridging material to seal off upward flow through the BOP.



Sophisticated diagnostic work using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) will precede the 'top kill' to allow the procedure to be planned in detail. The knowledge from this diagnostic work will be instrumental in determining whether to proceed with this option.



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Being progressed in parallel with plans for the top kill is development of a lower marine riser package (LMRP) cap containment option. This would first involve removing the damaged riser from the top of the BOP, leaving a cleanly-cut pipe at the top of the BOP's LMRP. The LMRP cap, an engineered containment device with a sealing grommet, would be connected to a riser from the Discoverer Enterprise drillship and then placed over the LMRP with the intention of capturing most of the oil and gas flowing from the well and transporting it to the drillship on the surface. The LMRP cap is already on site and it is anticipated that this option will be available for deployment by the end of May.



Additional options also continue to be progressed, including the option of lowering a second blow-out preventer, or a valve, on top of the MC 252 BOP



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"We should know by Wednesday evening," said Suttles, chief operating officer for BP Exploration & Production, during a press conference Monday to provide an update on the company's effort to kill the leak that has been threatening the Gulf Coast since the April 20 blowout at the well. Suttles said engineers would know when top kill works because "the well would stop flowing."



Top kill is the name for the procedure that would inject heavy drilling fluids into the choke and kill lines of the well's malfunctioning blowout preventer to clog the flow of crude that had been estimated around 5,000 b/d, a figure largely discredited. "It shouldn't actually make the leak worse," Suttles said when asked about the risk for attempting the top kill procedure.



He said the biggest risk is the possibility that the drilling mud would be forced from the wellhead into the water instead of forcing the flow of oil and natural gas back down into the wellbore. If that occurs, Suttles said the company could then deploy what it calls the "junk shot," using tire shards, golf balls and other odd-sized debris to force it back. "That is one of the options we would have available," Suttles said. "If we saw the right conditions and felt like that would be the right next step." He said BP decided to use top kill prior to the junk shot for fear that the junk shot might clog the lines and eliminate the top kill option altogether. "If that happened, we couldn't follow with top kill," Suttles said.



If the top kill fails to halt the Macondo flow, Suttles said the company would look next at what he called a "lower marine riser package," cutting the riser and placing a new containment device over the leak. He again stressed the unprecedented nature of all options at these water depths and said the company has to carefully consider the timeline for its maneuvers to ensure that failed attempts with some options do not block attempts with other options.



Suttles also said the company's riser insertion tube continues to divert oil from the leak at a rate of about 2,000 b/d. BP successfully inserted that tube a week ago and has been measuring the flow of oil siphoned to a vessel on the surface.



Suttles also defended the initial estimate of a 5,000 b/d flow from the well, citing the large amount of natural gas and stressing the number as an estimate with "wide uncertainty." "I am very confident that the rate coming out of this well is nowhere near the estimates seen on TV," Suttles said in reference to independent research that has speculated the flow could be as high as 120,000 b/d. Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage."



Salazar's comments on BP draw reaction



Suttles, earlier in the day on CNN, fired back at the Obama administration for threatening to push the company out of the way and take control of the effort to cap the Macondo leak. He said the US government "very well could" assume total control of the leak-stopping effort "if they chose to do that."



But Suttles quickly questioned the wisdom of such a move, noting that BP controls the huge fleet of specialized surface vessels, remote-controlled submarines and other technologies that are needed to staunch the oil and gas.



"The technology that's out there is very specialized," Suttles said. "We're the biggest of the international companies. We have the biggest deepwater capability. We do more of this than anyone else. We got the best contractors in the world. We pulled in the best scientists from the government and from across our industry. So, I don't think anyone else could do better than we are."



Suttles' comments came a day after US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters that the Obama administration would "push [BP] out of the way," if the company is "not doing what they're supposed to be doing" with respect to the leaking well. Salazar made that remark in Houston after meeting privately with BP officials on the oil leak.



Salazar did not make it clear if he was talking about the US government taking control of BP's efforts to plug up the leaking well, or assuming control of the efforts to clean up the oil that is now washing ashore in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast States.



US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen on Monday also backed away from Salazar's statements.



"To push BP out of the way would raise the question of replacing them with what," Allen said in a White House news conference. "I've been involved with the technical decisions and (BP) is pressing ahead," trying every possible technical solution to address the leak. Allen said he sees no reason for the federal government to take over the spill relief efforts from BP, saying he is "satisfied with the coordination that's going on." But he and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs denied suggestions that the federal government has not pressed BP hard enough on its spill response. Allen said BP has been following a "logical sequence" of techniques "based on risk" aimed at stopping the oil leak.



EPA not happy about dispersant choice



US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday she is "not satisfied" with BP's decision to stick with its current dispersant rather than switch to a less toxic alternative, even as tests have shown no negative environmental impact from dispersant use.



Jackson said the EPA will do its own independent tests of Corexit, the dispersant BP has been using both on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and undersea. She has also ordered BP to continue searching for alternatives, even as the EPA starts conducting its own independent tests.



"Rather than take their word for it, I would rather have my own scientists do their own testing," Jackson said during a conference call with reporters. Jackson said the use of dispersants has been very effective, especially subsea. She said subsea use has dramatically cut the need to use dispersants on the surface and that total use of dispersants going forward could be cut by anywhere from 50% to 75%.



BP Group Chairman and Chief Executive Tony Hayward said Monday he felt "devastated" by environmental damage from the leaking Macondo well that he had just seen on the Louisiana Coast. "Absolutely gutted," Hayward told reporters in comments made at Fourchon Beach, where oil from the well had washed onshore.



Hayward's remarks were broadcast on television. "We are going to put the Gulf Coast right and back to normal as fast as we can," Hayward said. "We will clean every last drop of oil off the shore. We will remediate the environmental damage. And we will put the Gulf Coast right and back to normality as fast as we can." Hayward denied BP was limiting the resources it was using toward plugging the Macondo well and cleaning up the oil so far released



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War, children, it's just a shot away...it's just a shot away.... ____________________________________________________E-mail anytime [email protected] Inquiring about a ban?, include the IP address found here. [ link to www.showmemyip.com BP has scheduled its so-called top kill procedure for Wednesday during the daytime and should know by Wednesday night if the strategy is successful in halting the leak at its runaway Macondo exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP executive Doug Suttles said Monday."We should know by Wednesday evening," said Suttles, chief operating officer for BP Exploration & Production, during a press conference Monday to provide an update on the company's effort to kill the leak that has been threatening the Gulf Coast since the April 20 blowout at the well. Suttles said engineers would know when top kill works because "the well would stop flowing."Top kill is the name for the procedure that would inject heavy drilling fluids into the choke and kill lines of the well's malfunctioning blowout preventer to clog the flow of crude that had been estimated around 5,000 b/d, a figure largely discredited. "It shouldn't actually make the leak worse," Suttles said when asked about the risk for attempting the top kill procedure.He said the biggest risk is the possibility that the drilling mud would be forced from the wellhead into the water instead of forcing the flow of oil and natural gas back down into the wellbore. If that occurs, Suttles said the company could then deploy what it calls the "junk shot," using tire shards, golf balls and other odd-sized debris to force it back. "That is one of the options we would have available," Suttles said. "If we saw the right conditions and felt like that would be the right next step." He said BP decided to use top kill prior to the junk shot for fear that the junk shot might clog the lines and eliminate the top kill option altogether. "If that happened, we couldn't follow with top kill," Suttles said.If the top kill fails to halt the Macondo flow, Suttles said the company would look next at what he called a "lower marine riser package," cutting the riser and placing a new containment device over the leak. He again stressed the unprecedented nature of all options at these water depths and said the company has to carefully consider the timeline for its maneuvers to ensure that failed attempts with some options do not block attempts with other options.Suttles also said the company's riser insertion tube continues to divert oil from the leak at a rate of about 2,000 b/d. BP successfully inserted that tube a week ago and has been measuring the flow of oil siphoned to a vessel on the surface.Suttles also defended the initial estimate of a 5,000 b/d flow from the well, citing the large amount of natural gas and stressing the number as an estimate with "wide uncertainty." "I am very confident that the rate coming out of this well is nowhere near the estimates seen on TV," Suttles said in reference to independent research that has speculated the flow could be as high as 120,000 b/d. Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage."Salazar's comments on BP draw reactionSuttles, earlier in the day on CNN, fired back at the Obama administration for threatening to push the company out of the way and take control of the effort to cap the Macondo leak. He said the US government "very well could" assume total control of the leak-stopping effort "if they chose to do that."But Suttles quickly questioned the wisdom of such a move, noting that BP controls the huge fleet of specialized surface vessels, remote-controlled submarines and other technologies that are needed to staunch the oil and gas."The technology that's out there is very specialized," Suttles said. "We're the biggest of the international companies. We have the biggest deepwater capability. We do more of this than anyone else. We got the best contractors in the world. We pulled in the best scientists from the government and from across our industry. So, I don't think anyone else could do better than we are."Suttles' comments came a day after US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told reporters that the Obama administration would "push [BP] out of the way," if the company is "not doing what they're supposed to be doing" with respect to the leaking well. Salazar made that remark in Houston after meeting privately with BP officials on the oil leak.Salazar did not make it clear if he was talking about the US government taking control of BP's efforts to plug up the leaking well, or assuming control of the efforts to clean up the oil that is now washing ashore in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast States.US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen on Monday also backed away from Salazar's statements."To push BP out of the way would raise the question of replacing them with what," Allen said in a White House news conference. "I've been involved with the technical decisions and (BP) is pressing ahead," trying every possible technical solution to address the leak. Allen said he sees no reason for the federal government to take over the spill relief efforts from BP, saying he is "satisfied with the coordination that's going on." But he and White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs denied suggestions that the federal government has not pressed BP hard enough on its spill response. Allen said BP has been following a "logical sequence" of techniques "based on risk" aimed at stopping the oil leak.EPA not happy about dispersant choiceUS Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said Monday she is "not satisfied" with BP's decision to stick with its current dispersant rather than switch to a less toxic alternative, even as tests have shown no negative environmental impact from dispersant use.Jackson said the EPA will do its own independent tests of Corexit, the dispersant BP has been using both on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and undersea. She has also ordered BP to continue searching for alternatives, even as the EPA starts conducting its own independent tests."Rather than take their word for it, I would rather have my own scientists do their own testing," Jackson said during a conference call with reporters. Jackson said the use of dispersants has been very effective, especially subsea. She said subsea use has dramatically cut the need to use dispersants on the surface and that total use of dispersants going forward could be cut by anywhere from 50% to 75%.BP Group Chairman and Chief Executive Tony Hayward said Monday he felt "devastated" by environmental damage from the leaking Macondo well that he had just seen on the Louisiana Coast. "Absolutely gutted," Hayward told reporters in comments made at Fourchon Beach, where oil from the well had washed onshore.Hayward's remarks were broadcast on television. "We are going to put the Gulf Coast right and back to normal as fast as we can," Hayward said. "We will clean every last drop of oil off the shore. We will remediate the environmental damage. And we will put the Gulf Coast right and back to normality as fast as we can." Hayward denied BP was limiting the resources it was using toward plugging the Macondo well and cleaning up the oil so far released

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"We should know by Wednesday evening," said Suttles, chief operating officer for BP Exploration & Production, during a press conference Monday to provide an update on the company's effort to kill the leak that has been threatening the Gulf Coast since the April 20 blowout at the well. Suttles said engineers would know when top kill works because "the well would stop flowing."



Top kill is the name for the procedure that would inject heavy drilling fluids into the choke and kill lines of the well's malfunctioning blowout preventer to clog the flow of crude that had been estimated around 5,000 b/d, a figure largely discredited. "It shouldn't actually make the leak worse," Suttles said when asked about the risk for attempting the top kill procedure.



He said the biggest risk is the possibility that the drilling mud would be forced from the wellhead into the water instead of forcing the flow of oil and natural gas back down into the wellbore. If that occurs, Suttles said the company could then deploy what it calls the "junk shot," using tire shards, golf balls and other odd-sized debris to force it back. "That is one of the options we would have available," Suttles said. "If we saw the right conditions and felt like that would be the right next step." He said BP decided to use top kill prior to the junk shot for fear that the junk shot might clog the lines and eliminate the top kill option altogether. "If that happened, we couldn't follow with top kill," Suttles said.



If the top kill fails to halt the Macondo flow, Suttles said the company would look next at what he called a "lower marine riser package," cutting the riser and placing a new containment device over the leak. He again stressed the unprecedented nature of all options at these water depths and said the company has to carefully consider the timeline for its maneuvers to ensure that failed attempts with some options do not block attempts with other options.



Suttles also said the company's riser insertion tube continues to divert oil from the leak at a rate of about 2,000 b/d. BP successfully inserted that tube a week ago and has been measuring the flow of oil siphoned to a vessel on the surface.



Suttles also defended the initial estimate of a 5,000 b/d flow from the well, citing the large amount of natural gas and stressing the number as an estimate with "wide uncertainty." "I am very confident that the rate coming out of this well is nowhere near the estimates seen on TV," Suttles said in reference to independent research that has speculated the flow could be as high as 120,000 b/d. Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage."



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BP has scheduled its so-called top kill procedure for Wednesday during the daytime andin halting the leak at its runaway Macondo exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico, BP executive Doug Suttles said Monday.chief operating officer for BP Exploration & Production, during a press conference Monday to provide an update on the company's effort to kill the leak that has been threatening the Gulf Coast since the April 20 blowout at the well. Suttles said engineers would know when top kill works because "the well would stop flowing."Top kill is the name for the procedure that would inject heavy drilling fluids into the choke and kill lines of the well's malfunctioning blowout preventer to clog the flow of crude that had been estimated around 5,000 b/d, a figure largely discredited. "It shouldn't actually make the leak worse," Suttles said when asked about the risk for attempting the top kill procedure.If the top kill fails to halt the Macondo flow, Suttles said the company would look next at what he called a "lower marine riser package," cutting the riser and placing a new containment device over the leak. He again stressed the unprecedented nature of all options at these water depths and said the company has to carefully consider the timeline for its maneuvers to ensure that failed attempts with some options do not block attempts with other options.Suttles also said the company's riser insertion tube continues to divert oil from the leak at a rate of about 2,000 b/d. BP successfully inserted that tube a week ago and has been measuring the flow of oil siphoned to a vessel on the surface.Suttles said in reference to independent research that has speculated the flow could be as high as 120,000 b/d. Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage." Quoting: SHR

This Suttles guy has been full of shit from the beginning...The Kent Wells guy who did their "Technical briefing" is much more credible...I don't understand this whole "we'll know by that evening"...that's pretty much bullshit...they'll know pretty freakin soon whether it has a chance or not....and their biggest "fear" is blowing the thing apart...they'll be plenty of mud leaking as they go..there can't NOT be...if it starts working at all?...the mud will REPLACE the oil and gas leaking out..if they shoot a little bit in and baby step it?...it also will come out the riser leaks...it can't NOT come out the leaks..uuuuh...where the fuck else is it gonna go?...duh..all the BS from this guy sounds more like it's a road map to a predetermined fail show and they aren't going to try a shot in ernest....Oooh it IS leaking? welp, who knew.......pull the shit off then...release the prepared baffeling bullshit statement and proceed with plan G...



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nogo no go... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 981267

Well....we'll see....but I see now...there is a whole lot of trepidation and this rolling out just today of a "Next plan"...with this lmrp grommet thing is pretty suspect IMO that they preping the sheeples for a no shot....maybe they'll run some pumps for a while and pull off...but I'm smelling the fail coming...



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This Suttles guy has been full of shit from the beginning...The Kent Wells guy who did their "Technical briefing" is much more credible...I don't understand this whole "we'll know by that evening"...that's pretty much bullshit...they'll know pretty freakin soon whether it has a chance or not....and their biggest "fear" is blowing the thing apart...they'll be plenty of mud leaking as they go..there can't NOT be...if it starts working at all?...the mud will REPLACE the oil and gas leaking out..if they shoot a little bit in and baby step it?...it also will come out the riser leaks...it can't NOT come out the leaks..uuuuh...where the fuck else is it gonna go?...duh..all the BS from this guy sounds more like it's a road map to a predetermined fail show and they aren't going to try a shot in ernest....Oooh it IS leaking? welp, who knew.......pull the shit off then...release the prepared baffeling bullshit statement and proceed with plan G...

Suttles also dismissed a suggestion that explosives might ultimately be used to collapse the well, calling it "not an option that we believe we would ever use" because "we couldn't control the damage."This Suttles guy has been full of shit from the beginning...The Kent Wells guy who did their "Technical briefing" is much more credible...I don't understand this whole "we'll know by that evening"...that's pretty much bullshit...they'll know pretty freakin soon whether it has a chance or not....and their biggest "fear" is blowing the thing apart...they'll be plenty of mud leaking as they go..there can't NOT be...if it starts working at all?...the mud will REPLACE the oil and gas leaking out..if they shoot a little bit in and baby step it?...it also will come out the riser leaks...it can't NOT come out the leaks..uuuuh...where the fuck else is it gonna go?...duh..all the BS from this guy sounds more like it's a road map to a predetermined fail show and they aren't going to try a shot in ernest....Oooh it IS leaking? welp, who knew.......pull the shit off then...release the prepared baffeling bullshit statement and proceed with plan G... Quoting: SHR



there will be no "blowing apart" the bop. the bop will basically be neutral, or slight pressure into the well when they are done... they will only baby step the beginning to make sure they are absolutely open to the well. Once they establish that they are open, expect to see much rate, as they need to not only overcome the flow from the well, they need to create enough pressure to force the fluid down. The mud will take the path of least resistance, and that is going to be up, unless there is sufficient kinks and blockages in the riser to create back pressure with rate that forces the fluid down. that's where the junk shot comes in, try to fill the riser to get the fluid to preferentially flow down. if the well is flowing at 5000 bpd, that's only 3.5 barrels per minute. if the well is flowing 100,000 bpd, pray the junk shot works to slow it down, because you aren't getting that rate through the choke and kill lines...



go ahead and doom on... there will be no "blowing apart" the bop. the bop will basically be neutral, or slight pressure into the well when they are done... they will only baby step the beginning to make sure they are absolutely open to the well. Once they establish that they are open, expect to see much rate, as they need to not only overcome the flow from the well, they need to create enough pressure to force the fluid down. The mud will take the path of least resistance, and that is going to be up, unless there is sufficient kinks and blockages in the riser to create back pressure with rate that forces the fluid down. that's where the junk shot comes in, try to fill the riser to get the fluid to preferentially flow down. if the well is flowing at 5000 bpd, that's only 3.5 barrels per minute. if the well is flowing 100,000 bpd, pray the junk shot works to slow it down, because you aren't getting that rate through the choke and kill lines...go ahead and doom on...