BP Exec: We're Not Trying to Salvage Oil Well (Pipe is siphoning @a rate of 1,000 Barrels a Day)

Source: CBS

Says Pipe Is Siphoning Crude at Rate of 1,000 Barrels a Day and Is Making Progress in Stopping the Flow

(CBS) A British Petroleum executive confirmed today that the company is not trying to salvage its oil well as it attempts to stop the flow of crude that is leaking into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of approximately 5,000 barrels a day.

BP's chief operating officer Doug Suttles said on CBS' "The Early Show" that Sunday's successful attachment of a mile-long pipe into one of the leaks is catching about 20% of the well's flow.

"As of this morning, we think we're getting a little over 1,000 barrels a day up into the drill ship Enterprise," he told anchor Maggie Rodriguez.

He admitted that while that isn’t enough to stop the spreading oil leak (and scientists have found massive plumes of oil under the Gulf's surface, some measuring 10 miles in length), Suttles said it was good progress.


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They are not trying to salvage the well, their focus is on killing it and filling it up with cement. Too bad they are only picking up 1000 barrels per day, but at least we know the projections that it was producing 70,000 barrels per day are wrong.

The figure of 70,000 appears to have no foundation.

These are the same mental midgets who described the new line as a siphon on all the networks. Duh. A siphon works by gravity, of course. Even a cursory glance at a flow chart for a pipe of this size would show 50,000 barrels a day under a pressure below 200psi. Hell a three inch fire pipe will deliver over 10,000 barrels a day of water at 120 psi and volume increases by the square of the radius and the square of the pressure. There are all kinds of engineering charts available for this and it became irrelevant once we had the photos which were hidden for three weeks and could determine the velocity. Dr. McDonalds original estimate from satellite photos was 25,000 barrels a day, but this didn't count the oil that was layered below the surface. And yet even today they are still using that 5,000 barrels a day BS. Check out www.skytruth.org for more info.

by BP working in conjunction with your Coast Guard. So - they're your Coast Guard maybe take it up with them.

They know the numerator, and assume their denominator, thus deriving the fraction. The fraction has no intrinsic validity.

Too much incentive to cover-up, distort, lie and all kinds of other things

Why do they have to drill a relief well from miles off? Seems like a difficult task. Why not just cut the riser, insert a drill string, and pump heavy drilling mud down the freakin' well. Yes, a lot of oil will come out for a brief period of time. But then it will be totally shut off.

interested in closing it permanently. Somebody's cost/benefit analysis has told them to not give up on it yet.

That estimate comes from an independent Purdue University expert who viewed the videos of the spill and calculated that number as being closer to the truth, plus or minus 20 per cent.

See http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/us/14oil.html

and not the 70k it really is spewing.

photographing the site and providing that information to the American public. Does BO OWN the Gulf?

and the answer to that seems to be unequivocally yes, so far.

Why has BP been given the go-ahead to use a chemical (produced by a company with which BP has close ties; they got lots of inventory in the pipeline and their shareholders are making a KILLING at the Gulf's expense) that the EPA KNOWS is the WORST of bad choices in terms of its effectiveness and toxicity??? I. JUST. DON'T. GET. IT. :argh:

That's what I believe from BP execs. Not one word.

BP is basically saying that now instead of 70,000 barrels of oil a day spewing into the gulf they've accomplished reducing the gush to 69,000 barrels a day?

Am I missing something?