05-04-2010, 10:09 AM
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First Line Centre
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Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Nah what its saying is they didnt want to stop the completion to address the issue. They would use the exisiting rig to fix the leak in the concrete.
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Ahhh, that makes sense. Either way it makes BP looks like crap.
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05-04-2010, 11:03 AM
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Location: Calgary
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The guy mopping the rig deck said it was some british engineer who carelessly tossed a cigarette that caused the explosion. Also the short order cook heard from the BP CEO that they wanted this well done at rock bottom cost regardless of what happens.
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05-04-2010, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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I've been on enough wellsites to know how little the guys on location know about what is really happening. I doubt it's any different on an off-shore rig.
"Concrete"... yeah, right. That article contradicts itself a bit when it talks about cementing (concreting?) a casing string and then quotes the old drilling engineer that seems to be talking about an abandonment plug.
There's not much reliable technical information on what actually happened and with the potential legal liabilities, I doubt much will ever come out.
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05-04-2010, 11:15 AM
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
The guy mopping the rig deck said it was some british engineer who carelessly tossed a cigarette that caused the explosion. Also the short order cook heard from the BP CEO that they wanted this well done at rock bottom cost regardless of what happens.
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I don't believe either of these "stories". LOL at the cook one hehehe
Yah the cook was talking about the downhole program with the CEO of BP LOL
Last edited by Pinner; 05-04-2010 at 11:18 AM.
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05-04-2010, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Pinner
I don't believe either of these "stories". LOL at the cook one hehehe
Yah the cook was talking about the downhole program with the CEO of BP LOL
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Geez nothing gets by you 
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05-04-2010, 11:51 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Well if nothing else, BP is trying something completely unheard of in an attempt to contain this debacle...
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Their plan is to lower the chamber to the ocean floor where the biggest of three leaks in the well's underwater piping occurs. It would straddle the pipe and lock itself into the seabed, so that the leaking oil goes into the chamber itself.
Then the question becomes how to pipe it up to a giant tanker on the surface, 5,000 feet up. It is by far the deepest attempted use ever of such a containment chamber, according to BP officials.
"This has been done in shallow water; it's never been done in deep water before," Suttles said
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/03/oil...ex.html?hpt=C1
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05-08-2010, 08:22 PM
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From what I understand, the BOP is partially closed right ?
What I'm wondering is, how long can that valve last before it washes out and starts puking even more oil?
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05-08-2010, 09:23 PM
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Such a pretty girl!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Calgary
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First attempt at using the dome has failed.
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Originally Posted by CNN
The effort to place a massive containment dome over a gushing underwater wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico was dealt a setback when a large volume of hydrates -- icelike crystals that form when gas combines with water -- accumulated inside the vessel, a BP official said Saturday.
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Suttles said the gas hydrates are lighter than water and, as a result, made the dome buoyant. The crystals also blocked the top of the dome, which would prevent oil from being funneled up to a drill ship.
"We did anticipate hydrates being a problem, but not this significant [of one]," he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/08/gul...ex.html?hpt=T1
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05-13-2010, 10:05 AM
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05-13-2010, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by fotze
It will last forever, but we know nothing. If its coming on the outside of the casing the BOP won't do anything. they will for sure know where the flow is coming from, but for some reason are not letting it public. If it were coming right out of the casing, it would be straightforward.
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Here's an article from CNN today.
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Now BP (BP) has come up with four solutions it is trying simultaneously to stop the two leaks that remain.
Double pipe: On Thursday, BP announced its latest idea to stop the leak.
This plan calls for a new section of pipe, ringed with a gasket, to be inserted into one end of the leaking riser pipe. The riser pipe connects the well head to the drill rig.
One end of the riser pipe is still connected to the well head, which is also leaking oil. But the other end now lies about 450 feet away following the explosion and sinking of the drill rig last month, which claimed 11 lives.
If this second pipe can be inserted, the plan would be to connect it to ships at the surface, where the oil could be off loaded...
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05-14-2010, 09:42 AM
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Looks like BP could be mistakenly/"on purposely" wrong about that 5,000 barrels of oil per day number. (They had originally said it was just 1,000.)
It might be more like 70,000 bopd. Oopsie.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/14/gul...ill/index.html
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05-14-2010, 09:54 AM
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I also heard that their TD was 22-25,000 ft... They were licenced for 18,000 ft
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05-14-2010, 09:57 AM
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Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by chemgear
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70,000 is an incredible amount. Considering the guy is eyeballing that volume from video I'm going to say he's probably a tad high.
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05-14-2010, 09:58 AM
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Norm!
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All this talk about inserting pipes, and putting a dome over the gusher is kinda sexy.
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05-14-2010, 09:59 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally Posted by chemgear
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Or they don't know what they're talking about given the grainy nature of the images. Hard to say.
Where's the oil? As much of one-third may have evaporated already. And where will the rest end up.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37150109...ience-science/
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05-14-2010, 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
70,000 is an incredible amount. Considering the guy is eyeballing that volume from video I'm going to say he's probably a tad high.
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They do know what the well down the street is flowing tho
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05-14-2010, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Cowperson
Where's the oil?
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They have been sinking it with dispersant. (out of sight, out of mind)
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05-14-2010, 10:07 AM
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Originally Posted by chemgear
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I like this part of the article: "Wereley said he spent two hours Thursday analyzing the video ... "
Goes back to the post someone made about talking out of one's hindend.
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05-14-2010, 10:10 AM
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Dances with Wolves
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Here is the oil spill overlaid on a map of Alberta. Calgary is roughly the size of the red dot.
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05-14-2010, 10:23 AM
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I heard the roughneck had a hunch and drilled up 180 feet on the number two drill even though the boss shut it down. The roughneck didn't realize that it was shut down because the "relief valve" was "fried" open on number two.
Worst part, when the boss went to give the roughneck hell he caught him with his daughter and chased him around the rig with a shotgun.
That's when the blowout happened.
True story.
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