• BP lowers a cap onto leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well
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I don't think its working as well as they hoped They just cut to showing Airforce One getting ready to depart
[quote=saxon;22370210]i don't think its working as well as they hoped[/quote] again.
They have to close off the vents and the like I think, and they said it may take between 24 and 48 hours for it's success to be truly determined.
[QUOTE=1/4 Life;22365157]It's pressurized; a mile under the ocean, and you want to pour concrete on it!? This is why you're still in high school.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=bravehat;22370275]They have to close off the vents and the like I think, and they said it may take between 24 and 48 hours for it's success to be truly determined.[/QUOTE] yeah but the captions under the stream says "cap on oil still spewing" For there sake it better just be a misunderstanding because Obama just as a minute ago is leaving for there right now :v:
If they end up going for the nuclear option this will end very badly. Radioactive crude in the gulf when hurricane season comes along. :smithicide:
[QUOTE=Saxon;22370390]yeah but the captions under the stream says "cap on oil still spewing" For there sake it better just be a misunderstanding because Obama just as a minute ago is leaving for there right now :v:[/QUOTE] Does it look like a misunderstanding? It's still spewing, clearly.
Still not got all the vents shut though I think. [editline]05:11PM[/editline] [QUOTE]BP announced today that oil and gas is being received onboard the Discoverer Enterprise following the successful placement of a containment cap on top of the Deepwater Horizon's failed blow-out preventer (BOP). This follows the cutting and removal of the riser pipe from the top of the BOP's lower marine riser package (LMRP). [B]It is expected to take one or more days for flow rates of oil and gas to stabilize and it is not possible at this stage to estimate how much oil and gas will be captured by this containment system.[/B][/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=2012968&contentId=7062653[/url] Seems to be going as planned then, and it says that it increases flow rate, so if it looks just as bad it may actually be doing it's job... :what:
They can't shut the vents yet, it'll ice up like the other cap did. They have to pump some shit in there to stop it from freezing. The fact that it's in place is very good news.
[QUOTE=bravehat;22370422]If they end up going for the nuclear option this will end very badly. Radioactive crude in the gulf when hurricane season comes along. :smithicide:[/QUOTE] All things considered it's the least ecologically damaging option. Plus most of the radioactive water would be kept there, no? What can escape such water pressure. But for the sake of making fun of myself I'll say: Let's just drop a clean nuke already. :downs:
Why are BP tasked with fixing this? It wasn't even their rig, it was rented.
it didn't work in 1979, i don't expect it to work this time.
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;22414484]Why are BP tasked with fixing this? It wasn't even their rig, it was rented.[/QUOTE] They're [b]responsible[/b].
[QUOTE=Clavus;22417105]They're [b]responsible[/b].[/QUOTE] But [B]why[/B] are they responsible?
[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;22417203]But [B]why[/B] are they responsible?[/QUOTE] Because the client is always responsible for its contractors.
people are so quick to blame BP because everyone bitches about gas prices. this is their way of venting that frustration. [editline]01:19PM[/editline] both are responsible, but BP is the prime contractor.
[QUOTE=Eudoxia;22372353]All things considered it's the least ecologically damaging option. Plus most of the radioactive water would be kept there, no? What can escape such water pressure. But for the sake of making fun of myself I'll say: Let's just drop a clean nuke already. :downs:[/QUOTE] No the problem is the glass formed in the explosion will crack, and remember energy travels well in a dense medium like water and rock so what will happen is will be the energy moves through the rock breaking all the weaknesses and faults in the rock and further weakening and splitting them. All in all a lot more leaks than before.
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