Can you tell us what vessel you’re on or if it looks like the Q4000, Blue Dolpin, or Stem star are pumping? You can tell by their exhausts.
[QUOTE=AHTS Master;34072]Everything on the surface is fine not sure about 5,067 ft. down.[/QUOTE]
Are you picking up any chatter you can share OTR ?[QUOTE=AHTS Master;34072]Everything on the surface is fine not sure about 5,067 ft. down.[/QUOTE]
Just to let you know, it looks like the cment blew out of one of the outter casings earlier this morning . If they’re not pumping then we’ve got a hell of a mess going on downt there. [QUOTE=AHTS Master;34072]Everything on the surface is fine not sure about 5,067 ft. down.[/QUOTE]
Top Kill is very much alive!
[I]“The plan continues to pump and test for at least 36 more hours. The plan is to stay equally balanced and inch forward one inch at a time. They will continue to stop from time to time and test pressures. The stops were always part of the plan. There are still 50,000 Bbls onsite with more types and supply on standby. Oil leak is way down… Not Up… The clouds are when they pump mud not the opposite”[/I]
Sorry CompanyMan NO Godzilla…
No info is being passed around out here. All the companies involved are tight lipped.
Would my fellow posters do us a favor & get either me, rlanasa, or both of us thrown out of here.[QUOTE=rlanasa;34076]Top Kill is very much alive!
[I]“The plan continues to pump and test for at least 36 more hours. The plan is to stay equally balanced and inch forward one inch at a time. They will continue to stop from time to time and test pressures. The stops were always part of the plan. There are still 50,000 Bbls onsite with more types and supply on standby. Oil leak is way down… Not Up… The clouds are when they pump mud not the opposite”[/I]
Sorry CompanyMan NO Godzilla…[/QUOTE]
Can you see a visual form the ROV video where you are? If you get anything you can pass along we’d appreciate it. And stay safe out there.[QUOTE=AHTS Master;34077]No info is being passed around out here. All the companies involved are tight lipped.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=company man 1;34078]Would my fellow posters do us a favor & get either me, rlanasa, or both of us thrown out of here.[/QUOTE]
I hope to see you on the call in 10 minutes and we look forward to you well thought out questions.
CNN is having a press briefing any time. Wolf Blitzer is saying there is breaking news to report.
[QUOTE=rlanasa;34076]Top Kill is very much alive!
“The plan continues to pump and test for at least 36 more hours. The plan is to stay equally balanced and inch forward one inch at a time. They will continue to stop from time to time and test pressures. The stops were always part of the plan. There are still 50,000 Bbls onsite with more types and supply on standby. Oil leak is way down… Not Up… The clouds are when they pump mud not the opposite”
Sorry CompanyMan NO Godzilla…[/QUOTE]
Why don’t you post links to the company talking points like this? I know your mileage varies, but frankly, I’ll believe the New York Times (quote below) over bp press releases. The following is a description by the technician of what happened after the two junk shot attempts:
But the technician working on the effort said later Friday that despite the injections at various pressure levels, engineers had been able to keep less than 10 percent of the injection fluids inside the stack of pipes above the well. He said that was barely an improvement on Wednesday’s results when the operation began and was suspended after 11 hours. BP resumed the pumping effort Thursday evening for about 10 more hours.
“I won’t say progress was zero, but I don’t know if we can round up enough mud to make it work,” the technician said. “Everyone is disappointed at this time.”
Uh, oh, speaking of leaks bp needs to stop up…
Look, I don’t know if the outer casing blew or not, but the riser is just about eroded in half. Without that kinked riser restricting the flow, it would be impossible to create the pressure needed to continue forcing mud down the well. The technical people at bp (and others) know this. So what part of “you don’t understand what the hell you are talking about” do you not understand?
Look, everybody wanted this to work.
[QUOTE=company man 1;34075]Just to let you know, it looks like the cment blew out of one of the outter casings earlier this morning . If they’re not pumping then we’ve got a hell of a mess going on downt there.[/QUOTE]
How could chunks of that size escape from the well and pass through the BOP and the kink in the riser intact like that?
[QUOTE=company man 1;34078]Would my fellow posters do us a favor & get either me, rlanasa, or both of us thrown out of here.[/QUOTE]
I have a BS in Marketing, a Business Degree 1980. I got a good education in many ways. BP Execs have constantly said, [I]“Everything is going according to plan.”[/I]
I’m sure that they are NOT lying, based upon my courses in proper business management. We were trained much like soldiers or boat captains … when you make a plan, part of that plan entails “[U]CONTINGENCY PLANS[/U]” for each step in case of failure. So when one properly follows a good plan and then encounters failure or subperformance, [B]a “contingency plan” is adopted once a “Decision Making Tree” is switched to a new method/tactic/strategy or course of action.[/B] So a business man or sailor or soldier could theoretically encounter failure after failure and still stay on the plan … although each successive failure has carried the leader into vastly different action phases like branching from the original course. The rig’s initial failure was clearly lacking in “Contingency Plans” … Now they’ve gone back to business management school to tell you the “truth” as we are being intentionally mislead. [B]They wiil indeed be on the “plan” right up until they announce failure. The plan is to break it to us slowly. [/B]
[I]“A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, until he is heard no more. Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”[/I] ~ Shakespeare’s Macbeth
(This is my opinion and commentary on the mumbo-jumbo we are hearing)
[QUOTE=company man 1;34081]CNN is having a press briefing any time. Wolf Blitzer is saying there is breaking news to report.[/QUOTE]Another out of control plume now.
I sent you the dial in numbers so you could register and ask your well thought out questions.
[QUOTE=company man 1;34081]CNN is having a press briefing any time. Wolf Blitzer is saying there is breaking news to report.[/QUOTE]
Both of you guys have been very enlightening to us non oilfield folks on here. I appreciate the explanations and sometimes conflicting views presented. Neither of you having cold hard facts and no one expects either of you to be 100% accurate. Yall just keep on blogging about what you think is occuring. No need to blast each other…
They didn’t. I am speculating they blew out of the annulus of the intermediate & surface casing.[QUOTE=alvis;34083]How could chunks of that size escape from the well and pass through the BOP and the kink in the riser intact like that?[/QUOTE]
I would love for rlanasa to be right on the head. The problem is he/she is full of BS & the people on here who have any knowledge or field experience know it. You notice that Rlanasa hws never revealed what they do inside or outside of the industry. I’m going to guess… Subway sandwich artist.[QUOTE=CaptDaveB;34088]Both of you guys have been very enlightening to us non oilfield folks on here. I appreciate the explanations and sometimes conflicting views presented. Neither of you having cold hard facts and no one expects either of you to be 100% accurate. Yall just keep on blogging about what you think is occuring. No need to blast each other…[/QUOTE]
Yes more plume and if you join the BP briefing at 45 minutes after the hour they will share with you those plums occur when they are taking one of those inch steps forward and pumping mud.
What well thought out questions are you going to ask BP on the call?
[QUOTE=company man 1;34086]Another out of control plume now.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=company man 1;34089]They didn’t. I am speculating they blew out of the annulus of the intermediate & surface casing.[/QUOTE]
Could this be mud? The description and a comment in the youtube video indicate that it is mud.