Watch the BP ROV Under Sea Cams...Thread # 31

Thread #30: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8676665&mesg_id=8676665

Thread #1 of the Watch the BP Cams: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8457616



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BP PORTAL to News, Updates, Vids, etc. http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechnicalupdate061010a.htm

>>> Kent Wells Relief well overview and ranging animation (June 27): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/reliefwellgraphics062710.htm

>>> Kent Wells explanation of Top Hat and Oil Extraction (June 3 posting): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/lmrp6_060310.htm

>>> May 31 video by Kent Wells: http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechupdatelong053110.htm

>>> June 10 Kent Wells tech update: http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechnicalupdate061010a.htm


OTHER INFO LINKS:

The latest TheOilDrum thread (top of the page): http://www.theoildrum.com/

Interesting article here regarding BP documents explaining initial failure, pic heavy article: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/08/breaking-news-leaked-white-house-document-exposes-bp-gulf-oil-spill

Great forum with lots of pics and video if you need to catch up: (although the DUUSBPROVC is giving them a run for the money!)
http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,68178.4545

Subsea Response Links (great to view when there's downtime): https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYETicASkH8SZGZmN3ptcXpfN2M2cmR3c2M5&hl=en

And for a little levity: Super Mario: BP Oil Spill Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW4e8LtVC6I
The *BP Coffee Spill* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM&feature=youtube_gdata

Good info links: http://www.drillscience.com/bp/
and: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dff7zmqz_7c6rdwsc9 (from TOD)
and: http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/
Mapping the Response to BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (brought to us by NYC-SKP)


LIVE CAM LINKS:

Multi-view ROV page: http://spillcam.tk /
and: http://jtnog.org/
and: http://www.josephpalmer.com/ROV.html
and: http://bp.isevil.org
and: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html

All cams (BP site): http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7062605

WKRG Video Stream:http://www.livestream.com/wkrg_oil_spill

Akamai Link: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:46245.asx

Fox Feed: http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?cha

CNN Feed: http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=str

ABC Feed: http://abcnews.go.com/video/video?id=6105570


This graphic represents what the new cap will bring:

Long Term Containment–Mid July




And, finally, proof that
DU is on this project:



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I stepped out and just got back in. It looks to me like the old cap is off. Is that correct?

They shut off any pics of it going too.

:hi:

And this one is more respectable, IMO, and less trial and error.

Sure hope it works.

And please disregard my suggestion in the last thread that it might be time for a new thread.

You were already on it!

:toast:

How many are there total, and do you know if they we be taking them off in any particular order?

I would think they would need to remove the bolts so as not to leave one side 'pinched'.

Just got this pic and I was surprised they were getting after them so fast.

:hi:

http://bp.concerts.com/gom/sealingcapinstallationanimationwithkentwells070910.htm

:patriot:

For the first time Friday, the Coast Guard and BP acknowledged that a mysterious second pipe, wedged next to the drill pipe in what remains of the Deepwater Horizon's riser, is fouling up the works where the well is spewing hundreds of millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.


"We used a diamond saw and we got inside. We found there was actually two sets of drill pipe there," said retired Adm. Thad Allen, the top U.S. Coast Guard official overseeing the response to America's worst-ever oil spill.


Share Some experts say a second piece of drill pipe in the riser could have prevented shear rams on the rig's blowout preventer from sealing the well and permanently cutting off the flow of oil after the April 20 explosion. The presence of two pipes could have also contributed to BP's failure to make a clean cut on the riser when securing the existing containment dome, inhibiting its ability to collect the maximum amount of oil.


It "presumably fell down beside it as a result of the explosion and the riser pipe being bent over," Allen said. He noted that the second pipe does not have oil shooting from it.

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http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/post_19.html


Don't know if this was posted elsewhere on DU but posting it here anyways.

Remember when we were discussing the reasons why the wire saw didn't work? This is why.

piece of pipe may have been the reason the BOP failed to begin with?

And it does make sense this could be what caused the problems for the wire saw.

Thanks!

it correctly. I don't know enough about the inside workings of the BOP to know if this extra pipe was the reason the rams didn't work. Remember, the BOP was having it's own problems without this extra pipe. However, this extra pipe could be an indication that it was blown up into its current configuration frown down-hole, which would serve to illustrate a little bit more what happened in that hole as the blowout occured.

This is most likely some sort of prep work. I'm of the idea that they're going to take that riser flange off. I don't know why they'd have to clean that.



http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/OceanInterventionROV2.html

to be as strong as it was last time the cap was off. Seems leisurely even.

The captures above must be making a difference.

From Reno Dave @ 8:57pm
The view from Ocean Intervention ROV 1 shows one of the bolts being slowly removed.

Very clever design for the wrench. It appears to be a sort-of hydraulic ratchet wrench, with a cycle-time for each "click" of the ratchet at about 1 minute.

At that rate, it would take quite a while to completely remove each bolt. I wonder if this tool is only meant to break the bolts loose, an another tool will be used to more quickly remove them.

9:14pm
Ahh, they use one of the ROV's manipulators to simply grab the top of the loosened bolt and spin it.

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And an assortment:

I particularly liked the part where they used the wrist of the ROV arm as a hammer to help set the wrench in place.

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That was a laugh-or-cry moment. It actually looked like the temper tantrum I might hav--er, some people might have, with a lug wrench on a flat tire. I'm glad you mentioned it because I was afraid I was hallucinating.

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It's not completely hooked up, but it slide into place pretty easily.

Edited to add: apparently they were just testing the fit. I guess now they have to hook it up to the pipes and hoses. Or maybe they were not happy with it (I hope not) or they forgot the seal or ???????????

Here is a good description of what is going on from the TOD, with some graphics:
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6714#comments_top

Also this video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNv4tfyyvxA shows the special cap looking tool used to remove the flange.

There is so much 'stuff' around the flange it looks like a junkyard. The ROV operators never cease to amaze me.

Because otherwise I keep losing this when it slips down GD. Thanks for posting.

be checking the 'reports' here!

:hi:

Looks like they're attempting to make the connection right now, or soon.

of them have action. A far cry from staring at the one shot of the top kill operation.

I read that it's 12 feet tall....sizes are so deceptive in these pics.

brain around it. The cap that I thought was in transition is still just kind of hanging there doing nothing. Maybe I looked when the camera was moving and I thought the cap was on its way!

in case this runs into trouble. Oh please don't let that happen!

Reading and pictures are all I have in this game. :crazy:

access the other sites.

Well, one view of the action and another showing the cap kind of suspended, waiting around.

Green stuff anyway. May have to do with the Helix riser going on today. I dunno, just a guess.

Despite your statements to the contrary -- you know a LOT about what's going on! It's like you've been taking a class and are the star pupil! I'm impressed -- and lost! :headbang:

It's interesting and the people there are funny as hell too when they get going.

because I have no idea what the hell they're talking about.

Get that thing on there!!

to take advantage!

separate window. http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html

Watching both of them, and the others too. What fun for a Sunday afternoon.

my laptop plus I can get feeds I'm having trouble with at home (don't ask -- my fault) so I'm going to slack as much as possible and try to get up to speed while I have the opportunity. I know what my priorities are!

It's forbidden where I work. Computers for work stuff only. Bah

but I do remember those jobs when I had to try to be slick about what I was doing. :7

They did it, they got that thing on. Doesn't look like it's leaking either. WOW

:applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo:

It's going to take a while to get that spool sucked all the way down.

They need a couple of big C-clamps and some "finesse".

Boa Deep C ROV1 is loooking closely at one of the alignment pins. Maybe that one is stuck.

I say hit it with a hammer. If that doesn't work, get a bigger hammer.

Nuts. Maybe just barely lifting it will do the trick. Otherwise the hammer sounds right.

I'm glad those people know what they're doing. They're taking their time and proceeding with caution.

If not, they should be.

KUDOS TO THE ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, LIFT AND ROV OPERATORS, ROUGHNECKS, SHIPS' CREWS, ETC.!

I think they have nerves of steel to do what they do.

only a spool the cup will be attached to.

And it is good progress.

until they actually attach the cap and see if it actually works?
That cap they are going to attach looks awfully big to me. And as I understand it, the well integrity has to hold up for that cap to work. So, until and unless it actually works, I would not be talking about progress just yet.

Ultimately the well will be killed by pumping concrete in through a relief well. The process of putting an improved cap on it, if successful, will substantially reduce the amount of oil and gas that is fouling the environment.

I wasn't expecting this to happen so quickly, it is great!

it is good news they are moving quite quickly, is it not?

they are amazing. I hope they get a big fat raise for this because it all depends on them way down there.

Without them this catastrophe would be even worse.

They have to bolt the spool down, then move the 3 stacking cap over it.

It's a B F D getting it on there and not wrecking the pipes coming out the top of the old riser.

"Drill to match, stomp to fit!"

ETA looks like they lifted the spool and let it drop back down.

IT'S ON!!!

See http://bp.concerts.com/gom/sealingcapinstallationoverviewwithkentwells070910.htm

The Kent Wells videos have been invaluable in understanding what is going on....that and the people at TOD. Sounds like the relief well #1 is in good time too.

short period of time! Design, manufacture, testing -- hats off to them!

if it was so slick and easy?

They haven't even put the cap on yet, and the oil is coming out completely unrestricted.

Since BeePee is not showing the gusher today - FIGURES they wouldn't!! - and what they are showing looks much more benign than I am used to seeing, I thought maybe they had capped it.

Doncha know? ;-)

if it was so slick and easy?

Do you have any idea how much planning and mechanical work went into that operation?

Have you ever actually made anything, using machine tools?

under great pressure, having been a self employed designer for 20 years...

I have questions as to the priorites of BP, and their decisions over the past 2+ months. Enough said for tonight. Too tired to go there.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8727343

WoW a lot happened in this thread, but it's getting long.

Thanks for the positive input and watching along. :hi: