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BP says the new cap is working.

[url=http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/bps-containment-cap-close-stopping-oil-gushing-gulf/story?id=11141434]BP's New Containment Cap 'Very Close' to Stopping Oil From Gushing Into Gulf - ABC News[/url]

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I hope and pray that it holds. I can't believe it took almost three friggin months to cap that thing.

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They are about to cause a real disaster. You know how much pressure is behind those trillion gallons of oil? Here comes the punchline. *drum roll*

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[quote=GMScud;712167]I hope and pray that it holds. I can't believe it took almost three friggin months to cap that thing.[/quote]

I was in Clearwater Beach on vacation a week before the spill started. That seems like forever ago to me now. It's absolutely mind boggling to think that it's been going on for 3 months now.

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I hope it holds. The good news is there is only so much that Obama and them can hide from the media.

[url=http://blog.heritage.org/2010/07/12/live-from-the-gulf-obama-team-blocks-media-from-oil-spill/]Live from the Gulf: Obama Team Blocks Media from Oil Spill | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.[/url]

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This story has since been debunked, still I thought it was entertaining

[url=http://www.helium.com/items/1882339-doomsday-how-bp-gulf-disaster-may-have-triggered-a-world-killing-event]Doomsday: How BP Gulf disaster may have triggered a world-killing event - by Terrence Aym - Helium[/url]

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YahooNews

BREAKING NEWS: #BP says new cap on well fully closed, no oil going into Gulf. (AP) #oilspill 1 minute ago via Twitter for iPhone

I hope that this holds up over the next hours!

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[quote=GMScud;712167]I hope and pray that it holds. I can't believe it took almost three friggin months to cap that thing.[/quote]

It's been that long? Seems like just yesterday when I first heard about it.

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I screwed up. This morning I planned on buying 100 shares in BP thinking now would be a good time but I got buzy at work and forgot. I might still buy some.

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My hope is that the pressure shift doesn't cause a rupture in the sea floor. Then BP/the Gov't would be helpless to stop billions of gallons from emptying. That would be far beyond catastrophic.

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[quote=GMScud;712607]My hope is that the pressure shift doesn't cause a rupture in the sea floor. Then BP/the Gov't would be helpless to stop billions of gallons from emptying. That would be far beyond catastrophic.[/quote]

My Brothers in the oil field and he was saying that is a possibility and if so, you would be right. There would be no way to stop it ever espeacially if a mile long crack on the ocean floor would occur. But that is just worst case scenario. He also said there is a good chance this will work we just have tap that well again soon to releave all that pressure.

I do pray this work.

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[quote=GMScud;712607]My hope is that the pressure shift doesn't cause a rupture in the sea floor. Then BP/the Gov't would be helpless to stop billions of gallons from emptying. That would be far beyond catastrophic.[/quote]

I admit I know nothing about the engineering involved. And yet I want to comment - go figure. It seems to me that the free flowing oil would have created more of a risk that way because when the well was working the oil was basically operating under a controlled pressure. Once the explosion occurred, there would have been a sudden drop of pressure under the ground and sinkholes could have occurred. Now that pressure has been restored I would think the system is back closer to its equilibrium point rather than a stress point.

That said, no sudden changes are ever good in pressurized situations.

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It's about time they got that thing capped.

Now comes the decades of recovery, unless the aforementioned multiple disasters happen first. It will be utter chaos if that pressure builds up and they don't relieve it in time.

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A good customer of mine who is a diver and worked in the gulf after Katrina as a supervisor was just in my office and I asked him why this was so hard. First he said the pressure coming out of that pipe is Hugh and thats a major issue just by itself. Then you have the ocean pressure that deep is 2,225 pounds per sq. inch so the oil flow is greater then that. He said when you combined the two along with the 5000 ft down it not easy to solve the problem.

The formula for figuring the ocean pressure is .445 x (how many feet down)= Per Sq inch
So if your diving at ten feet .445 X 10 = 4.45 pounds per sq inch. of pressure

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[U][COLOR=#670100][url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/16/bp-oil-cap-spill-control]BP oil cap may have spill under control | Environment | guardian.co.uk[/url][/COLOR][/U][URL="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/07/bp-oil-spill-gulf/1"][/URL]

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Hey Trample, were you talking to BP?

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/did-a-mystery-plumber-design-the-new-bp-containment-cap;_ylt=AkP7yOT_RqezOL2zh91AeA6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTU1dWExdTJrBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3Vwc2hvdC8yMDEwMDcxNi9kaWQtYS1teXN0ZXJ5LXBsdW1iZXItZGVzaWduLXRoZS1uZXctYnAtY29udGFpbm1lbnQt]Berkeley prof: ‘Mystery plumber’ may have designed the new BP containment cap - Yahoo! News[/url]

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;712800]Hey Trample, were you talking to BP?

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/did-a-mystery-plumber-design-the-new-bp-containment-cap;_ylt=AkP7yOT_RqezOL2zh91AeA6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTU1dWExdTJrBGFzc2V0A3libG9nX3Vwc2hvdC8yMDEwMDcxNi9kaWQtYS1teXN0ZXJ5LXBsdW1iZXItZGVzaWduLXRoZS1uZXctYnAtY29udGFpbm1lbnQt]Berkeley prof: ‘Mystery plumber’ may have designed the new BP containment cap - Yahoo! News[/url][/quote]

It's basic plumbing. Anyone with half a brain could've fixed it. The only thing different is the monitoring device that allows for them to monitor the PSI of the oil coming out. If you listen to what they're saying it doesn't differ to much from what I advocated. The language is similar too. "We've got to bolt it down, and turn the valve, we've got to do it slowly to make sure there are no leaks anywhere else"

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thank god lord Obama finally fixed this. here is to 6+ more years
:woot:

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[quote=dmek25;712831]thank god lord Obama finally fixed this. here is to 6+ more years
:woot:[/quote]

Yup. It only took him 3 months to plug a leak. Speaks volumes about the man. ;)

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I heard it too while i was on vacation, but apparantley they are worried about another leak now somewhere else that is due to the well being capped off.

The well casing is apparantley damaged, and the oil is seeping under the sea floor or something

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Interesting how interests have switched:

BP wants to keep the well head closed, I am sure mainly for PR sake; while the Govt wants to open it and collect the oil in tankers in order to relieve the pressure in case there is some seepage going on.

[url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100719/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill]Oil cap kept shut despite seepage near broken well - Yahoo! News[/url]

[QUOTE]If the valves are kept closed, as BP wants, it's possible that no more oil will leak into the Gulf of Mexico. Work on a permanent plug is moving steadily, with crews drilling into the side of the ruptured well from deep underground. By next week, they could start blasting in mud and cement to block off the well for good.

But the government is worried that the cap on the well is causing oil and gas to leak out elsewhere, which could make the sea floor unstable and cause the well to collapse. That's why federal officials want to pump the crude to ships on the surface. That would require opening the well for a few days to relieve pressure before the pipes could be hooked up, letting millions more gallons of oil spill out in the interim.[/QUOTE]

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Good news, for now at least

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/20/bp-oil-spill-seepage-well]BP oil spill: seepage 'not a threat to capped well' | Environment | guardian.co.uk[/url]

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thats great news. as long as the cap holds for another few weeks until the relief wells are finished....

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wow :doh:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms]Deepwater Horizon alarms were switched off 'to help workers sleep' | Environment | The Guardian[/url]

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[quote=Mattyk;713884]wow :doh:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/23/deepwater-horizon-oil-rig-alarms]Deepwater Horizon alarms were switched off 'to help workers sleep' | Environment | The Guardian[/url][/quote]

I am sure I will be accused of defending the evil among us:

[quote]He also revealed that a [B]crucial[/B] safety device, designed to shut down the drill shack in the case of dangerous gas levels being detected, had been disabled, or bypassed as it is called.

When he saw that the system had been bypassed, Williams protested to a Transocean supervisor, Mark Hay, who dismissed his concerns. Hay responded: "[B]Damn thing been in bypass for five years. Matter of fact, the entire [Transocean] fleet runs them in bypass[/B]."[/quote]

First he sounds like an employee with a major chip on his shoulder. Second, in the case of the above quote at least, it is pretty misleading to call a device "crucial" when that device has been ignored for 5 years and is not used in the entire fleet of drills. Chances are it was a useless alarm, and it was decided that frequent false alarms were as hazardous as the danger the condition the alarm was supposed to warn about.

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[QUOTE]designed to shut down the drill shack in the case of dangerous gas levels being detected[/QUOTE]

Sounds crucial to me.

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You know every time I make bacon in my house the fire alarm goes off. I don't turn the alarm off permanently to avoid it.

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Seems to me, if the alarm is misfiring, you build a better alarm rather than say: "Eh - it likely won't matter, I'll probably wake up when the explosion goes off anyway."

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[quote=FRPLG;713900]Sounds crucial to me.[/quote]

If it's disabled on every boat, or even the majority, I wouldn't call it crucial. But, maybe it would have been in that moment. I don't know, I just read the article, and the guy sounded like someone who was trying to show how important he was as opposed to someone trying to actually get the truth out.

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[quote=CRedskinsRule;713906]If it's disabled on every boat, or even the majority, I wouldn't call it crucial. But, maybe it would have been in that moment. I don't know, I just read the article, and the guy sounded like someone who was trying to show how important he was as opposed to someone trying to actually get the truth out.[/quote]

Isn't it Zsa Zsa?

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[quote=SmootSmack;713914]Isn't it Zsa Zsa?[/quote]

LOL yeah you are right! I must have had zhu zhu pets on my mind