[QUOTE=company man 1;36005]Edit: That would mean the reason they are running inclinometers every day is because they are concerned about the whole well head collapsing & the zone flowing out of a crater about 30’ in diameter. At least it would get over sooner.[/QUOTE]
I second your logic CM. They were religiously taking those readings including many on the conductor casing. Those conductor readings were not to determine flex joint displacement… when you go back, and back… and back to the conductor, there is a reason.
BTW I found a better shot of the two DP’s in the riser. It is attached below. I overlaid a grid based on the riser outside diameter of 21 inches. Each horizontal block is equivalent to an inch in diameter. My latest scaling from this pix shows the left pipe to have a diameter of about 4.5 not counting the bump in it where it wasn’t flattened well. So it is likely the 5.5 inch drill string, note what looks like threads on the inside diameter. Wonder if a tool joint jammed in the foldover crimp. Someone who knows the stack height and the placement of the shear rams could back calculate to see if the next tool joint falls on top of the shear rams. The right pipe measures 5.2 inches in diameter, so it is likely 5.5 inch diameter drill pipe also.
As you all say, if this well is leaking subsurface it is past time for BP AND the MMS/Coast Guard to admit it to us, the public.
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Raats the grid marks don’t show once I uploaded the picture and the site compressed it. It looks like if you download the pix and save it, then open it in a .jpg viewer and blow it up, it shows my grid lines.