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- Deepwater Oil Spill - Problems with the LMRP Cap - and Open Thread 2 Fri, 25 Jun 10, 12:45amBecause of the large number of comments, this is a copy of this post, with a new comment thread.
- Deepwater Oil Spill - Problems with the LMRP Cap - and Open Thread Thu, 24 Jun 10, 10:03amBP issued a press release this morning that read: NEW ORLEANS -- This morning at approximately 8:45 a.m. CDT, a discharge of liquids was observed from a diverter valve on the drill ship Discoverer Enterprise, which is on...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Matt Simmons on Dylan Ratigan Today, Closing the Relief Ports, and Open Thread 2 Tue, 8 Jun 10, 10:44amMatt Simmons has been making claims about other, perhaps larger, problem areas within the structure of the Macondo well--by which even more oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Closing the Relief Ports - and Open Thread 2 Tue, 8 Jun 10, 10:44amThe rate of oil recovery from the Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico has increased from the 6,000 bd recovered on Friday, to some 10,000 bd which was recovered on Saturday...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Closing the Relief Ports - and Open Thread Mon, 7 Jun 10, 11:33pmThe rate of oil recovery from the Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico has increased from the 6,000 bd recovered on Friday, to some 10,000 bd which was recovered on Saturday...
- Deepwater Oil Spill - Sealing the Cap and Jet Pumps - and Open Thread 2 Sun, 6 Jun 10, 8:41amThis is a repeat of a previous post, because there were getting to be too many comments on the previous thread. There has not been much change down on the sea bed where Thursday evening BP were able to put a cap onto the...
- Deepwater Oil Spill - Sealing the Cap and Jet Pumps - and Open Thread Sat, 5 Jun 10, 11:30pmThere has not been much change down on the sea bed where Thursday evening BP were able to put a cap onto the short riser section coming out of the Lower Riser Assembly (LRA) that sits on the Blowout Preventer (BOP) at the...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Capping the Riser - Part 1 (Cap on, but leaks) - and Open Thread 3 Sat, 5 Jun 10, 2:24pmUpdate: It is still too soon to know how successful the new cap will be. Spillage of oil was apparently expected by design, initially. As the system is adjusted so that more oil can come from the top, less spillage is expected....
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Capping the Riser - Part 1 (Cap on, but leaks) - and Open Thread 2 Sat, 5 Jun 10, 5:34amUpdate: It is still too soon to know how successful the new cap will be. Spillage of oil was apparently expected by design, initially. As the system is adjusted so that more oil can come from the top, less spillage is expected....
- Deepwater Oil Spill - the Congressional Illustrations - and Friday Early AM Thread Fri, 4 Jun 10, 4:46pm10:06 PM Heading Out's comment: They have the cap on but it has not gone down far enough to generate the seal, and so there is a lot of oil still coming out from under the cap.
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Riser is Cut, Seating the "Containment Cap," and Thurs. Open Thread 1 Thu, 3 Jun 10, 11:15pmPlease move discussion to new thread http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6539. It may be necessary to copy over some old comments, if an important discussion was started that could not be continued. Previous thread introduction...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Riser is Cut, Seating the Top Hat, and Thurs. Open Thread 1 Thu, 3 Jun 10, 11:30pmThis is a repeat of the earlier post, but see that updates have been added throughout the day both on top and under the fold--we kept the same post/information in one place since we are running through three comment threads...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The New Plan: Shears, Working on the Riser, and Wed. Open Thread 3 Thu, 3 Jun 10, 10:09amThis is a repeat of earlier threads, but see that updates have been added throughout the day both on top and under the fold--we kept the same post/information in one place since we are running through three comment threads...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Saw is No Longer Stuck, Working on the Riser, and Wed. Open Thread 2 Wed, 2 Jun 10, 11:20pmNew Thread--redirect to http://theoildrum.com/node/6551 This is a repeat of the earlier post, because of the large number of comments. Note Wednesday afternoon updates at the bottom of the post! There has been a lot of...
- BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - The Saw is No Longer Stuck, Working on the Riser, and Wed. Open Thread 3 Thu, 3 Jun 10, 10:09amThis is a repeat of the earlier post, because of the large number of comments. There has been a lot of activity at the bottom of the Gulf today, not all of it immediately successful, but all working toward the current aim...