JaffaTB
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no wonder they cant fix it, they're using an old spanner roped onto the robotic arm
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Twitch
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Anyone else just want to go put a cork in the hole?
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random dav
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Anyone else just want to go put a cork in the hole?
will they be able to get the rest of the oil out once the break has been blocked? ie redrill the reserve elsewhere?
WRLFC !
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Tiesto
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Some of the damage caused onshore so far.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html
The Big Picture site is 
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jamied
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thats awful 
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K3 VMU
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will they be able to get the rest of the oil out once the break has been blocked? ie redrill the reserve elsewhere?
yeah they can side track the well no problem 
i aint even going to get into this, as i will bore you`s with all my shite (this is my job, subsea well control)
pumping the oil based mud down to bullhead the well should work, as long as they can pump at such a rate to over come the well pressure and thus bullheading the well.....
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mart08uk
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Looks like they have given up..
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jamied
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Griffiths1991
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Why cant they stop it? dont seem to be trying very hard.
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jamied
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they have tried a few methods now..they are trying very hard as they have Barack Obama monitoring every move they make
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JaffaTB
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And thats the last thing you need when your struggling to fix something, a black man watching over your shoulder
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jamied
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stuartmitchell
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http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=93891&hmpn=1
Seems to be going to plan so far. 2 relief wells are being drilled to intervene the original but they wont be ready till August.
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Ellis
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They need that boy Red Adair, he was good at plugging breached wells/reserviors, he did the Alpha back in '88. Pity he kicked the bucket though...
Edit: actually he was only any use for the fires :doyle:
[Edited on 26-05-2010 by Ellis]
Guy who does the training courses at work has worked with him before. He's showed me photos hes taken from massive blow outs in Russia and all over the world, scary!
Apparently the BOP's are only partially closed, and if they were fully open the rate of oil coming out would be alot worse
Now at work, when pressure testing BOP's we also have to record the time taken for the rams to close, this is just since this happening and also at BP's request
Apparently one of the drillers pulled the string through when the BOP was being tested, well so I heard anyway.
I heard it was a Cooper Cameron BOP as well, I guess it doesn't matter who reburbished it last really, Transocean/BP should of acted long before it even happened.
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Dom
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CBS 60 Minutes did a programme about it a week or so ago (16/05/2010 episode), it's worth watching! 
Edit - It's on youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0onXmlFgF8I
[Edited on 28-05-2010 by Dom]
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Daimo B
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Really REALLY makes me angry.
F**k the cost, and human effect. Look at that coastline and animals.
Humans, yet again, f**king up the planet for everything thus proving that the human race is still a virus on this planet
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Ellis
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It's the risk we must take to live the lives we lead, but I agree because it was so easily avoidable. Lessons have been learned in the North Sea, mind you nae cnut is drilling much these days. Seems like the Americans still have a lot to learn.
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jmepamplin
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I work for BP Oils UK, pretty bad thing to happen, devistating actually. The fines/payouts etc by BP are all covered under their insurance/assurance policy, so this incident specifically wont affect fuel prices. I wonder how the media would portray this though?
The more likely cause for a massive fuel hike is Obama's plan to freeze all deep sea mining in the Alaska/Antartic regions and the Gulf as a whole...
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Steve
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Pffft Nurburgring armco costs more then this
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