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For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam #1043626
27/05/2010 15:01
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Looks like the engineers may just have succeeded in stopping the leak........

Constant live stream from the BOP system.

Last edited by stan; 27/05/2010 15:19. Reason: Actually, it only makes sense if you'd seen it over the past few weeks when it was spewing oil! Doh!

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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: stan] #1043647
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Just get a black screen, I guess it's pretty dark 1 mile down rolleyes

PS: I'm not a geek, just an engineer "in the business" hoping that bp isn't made too much of a scapegoat by the unforgiving US frown


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: DaveG] #1043658
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It did go down for a short time (forgive the pun!) but appears to be back now. Showing the BOP apparatus apparently leak free, unlike the last four weeks where it's been spewing thousands of barrels of oil into the surrounding sea.

I am curious as to why they didn't go for a top kill immediately, but then I am in *no* way an expert on this! Perhaps they thought there was a chance of saving the well?


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: stan] #1043814
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Well, unless it's broken again, the webcam I'm seeing is still showing a load of oil coming out?

Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: Theresa] #1043844
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AFAIK the top kill route requires a few other thing in place before it can go ahead.

For starters they need to drill to 'relief' pipe lines to divert the pressure once they plug the main one up.

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Originally Posted By: Theresa
Well, unless it's broken again, the webcam I'm seeing is still showing a load of oil coming out?


Yeah, that wasn't there earlier.....

The US Coastguard (the flying fagpacks as we used to call them due to the branding on their helicopters, that funny red stripe) pre-empted BP's own announcement by declaring the mission a success. BP later said they had "slowed down the leak" and were still confident.

Truffle: as I understand it, the idea of the first stage of the top kill is to pump thick drilling mud into the BOP to a certain pressure which is equal to the pressure of the oil trying to escape, thus testing the system integrity before they start pumping cement into the BOP, thus sealing the wellhead. The fact that oil still appears to be leaking, albeit slower than previously, suggests to me (a total armchair non-expert!) that their fears that there may be weakness/fractures within the BOP have been proved correct and they'll now be assessing whether they can seal those fractures, either with a junk shot or by some other means.

Like I said though, I'm no expert at all on this, just done some reading and am very interested in the technical challenges of trying to resolve this one mile underwater.....!


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: stan] #1053440
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Still going.....

I am not sure I agree with Obama where he is saying that this is as bad as 9/11 - seems to be scare mongering to the US citizens. Although, I do think BP should with hold their divedends!

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You do realise what will happen to an awful lot of pensions if BP *do* hold their dividends?

A cynic might observe that Obama wants to fine them largely because their taxable profits will be so much lower this year - if they're paying taxes in the US (I don't know).

But an alternate observer might wonder - given the regulatory background of the States - who did the environmental impact survey, who did the risk assessments, who approved the disaster recovery plans, and - most significantly - who, in the knowledge of those plans, approved the drilling licence and thereby accepted the risk?

Bleating about 'oh, we never expected this' is not satisfactory, and neither is the six years of legal battles that will follow. If your primary and secondary safety systems fail, then there will be a need for a tertiary system and possibly more. The initial cause of the incident is still unknown, but the explosion and sinking of the platform that resulted from that initial cause meant that a mile of pipe ended up bent at the bottom of the sea. The pipe-bottom safety valve failed and let oil come out of the pipe - and the oil came out at pressure because it was a new well and was still pressurised.

Perhaps future exploration licences will require that two wells be drilled so that pressure can be reduced more quickly?


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: barnacle] #1053861
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Forgive me for being a lttle cynical about Mr Obama's speech regarding America having to look towards 'greener, leaner' fuels, but given that Oil is one of, if not THE, biggest industry in the US, how likely do we think it will be that he can make cutbacks to the Oil industry after all this...?

Methinks not chinny

Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: barnacle] #1053869
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Originally Posted By: barnacle
Perhaps future exploration licences will require that two wells be drilled so that pressure can be reduced more quickly?


I think you will find they do elsewhere, Canada being one location, but it is obviously cost prohibited, hence not everyone does, well didn't!!

Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: JimO] #1053877
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From Oil & Gas Journal

Originally Posted By: Nick Snow, OGJ Washington Editor
...5 days before the explosion, on Apr. 15, BP’s drilling engineer called the Macondo well “a nightmare well,” and that despite difficulties, BP “appears to have made multiple decisions for economic reasons that increased the danger of a catastrophic well failure.”

(US House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders) said, “In several instances, these decisions appear to violate industry guidelines and were made despite warnings from BP’s own personnel and its contractors. In effect, it appears that BP repeatedly chose risky procedures in order to reduce costs and save time and made minimal efforts to contain the added risk.”

The well was significantly behind schedule when the blowout occurred, which apparently create pressure to take short-cuts, they added.

In particular, they said, the committee is focusing on the decision to use a well design with few barriers to gas flow; the failure to use a sufficient number of “centralizers” to prevent channeling during the cement process; the failure to run a cement bond log to evaluate the effectiveness of the cement job; the failure to circulate potentially gas-bearing drilling muds out of the well; and the failure to secure the wellhead with a lockdown sleeve before allowing pressure on the seal from below.

“The common feature of these five decisions is that they posed a trade-off between cost and well safety,” (the Committe leaders) said.

That doesn't look very promising for bp


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: DaveG] #1054160
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Please excuse my ignorance - i appreciate they cannot stop it an they have tried blocking the hole but cant they make some sort of funnel so they can at least suck the crude oil up into storage tankers?


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: MarioCirillo] #1054187
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They are doing that at the moment Mario, its on the BP website


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ahh ok i thought they were doing that just from the surface not right down where the hole is.

Thanks smile


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: MarioCirillo] #1054440
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cant belive there letting this get to this state!!

but all this will mena is they will up the fuel cost so we end up paying for there loss..

BP need to sort it out fast.

also, any here the statement from the big wig at BP..

We will compenstate the "Small people"

what an idiot!!!

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looks like there working on the pipe!!

Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: ] #1056176
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Hmmm, interesting, that camera at the moment (they change the camera shots so it may well not be the same one by the time you read this!) is showing the ROV monitoring dispersant operations. What is interesting, from a personal point of view, is that the ROV is operated by Subsea7......and I just happen to know someone, as do all of you, who works for them! wink

I'm sworn to secrecy though, and I know for a fact that he isn't at the other end of that ROV at the moment! laugh


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Are you hinting that when you're not being a Rozzer you are in fact moonlighting as a ROVver?

I bet you can control that thing sat at home in your armchair whilst the piefeed-o-matic 2.03 works overtime shocked

P.S - Webcam appears to be suffering from a slight case of "playing silly buggeritis"

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theres loads of action now on the cams... most of them are online and the robots appear to be doing something


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: ] #1056453
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Originally Posted By: Eks
Are you hinting that when you're not being a Rozzer you are in fact moonlighting as a ROVver?

I bet you can control that thing sat at home in your armchair whilst the piefeed-o-matic 2.03 works overtime shocked

P.S - Webcam appears to be suffering from a slight case of "playing silly buggeritis"



Nah, but I'd love to be a ROV pilot! cool

What a cool job that must be, only surpassed by being a drone pilot......! love


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: stan] #1056583
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Instead of just a drone?

<duck, grin, hide>


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Re: For the geeks amongst us: BP oil leak webcam [Re: barnacle] #1056585
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Thanks for that! laugh

Remember I know where you live.....ah, wait no, you know where I live! Okay, I'll kick my own door in..... blush


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If you would. It'd save me driving up there and falling down your stairs for you.

Ta!


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they are working on it right now

Enterprise ROV 2 webcam.

robot thing with mechanic arm tying up another machine.
Very technical i know!

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what's that big pipe?

The camera now shows only a small leek!

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Oh, all that oil. Could have kept a 16VT going for a whole week laugh

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No success all today attempting to access videos, it says URL is not valid, perhaps I'm doing something wrong.


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Its looking like its finally stopping!

BP shares have gone up, I suspect now is the best time to be selling!

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Someone sent me a link to this , which I thought was quite amusing smile


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excellent.
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