[QUOTE=johnebe;34183]Can you explain why the lone video feed they give us is usually at such a ridiculous low frame rate…? Is there a purpose in this over full motion 30fps…?[/QUOTE]
I would imagine it’s a question of Internet bandwidth. Think of how many people are watching this around the world. When the spillcam first went up, everyone was having trouble in watching video because, I assume, their streaming video server didn’t have sufficient bandwidth to the Internet to support that many people. They can increase the video compression so the video stream doesn’t take up as much network bandwidth; which would make the picture more “blocky.” And/or they can decrease the frame rate, or reduce the video size. I’ve been using WMRecorder to archive the streaming video and they’ve up’ed the compression since the first couple of days too.
yeah this is a 50kbps stream at 320x240, and the quality of the image is excellent. I’d definitely rather have the apparent 2fps stuff now with high quality than an ugly image at high speed. Also helps for folks in the sticks still on phone modems. (lol… what’s that?)
[QUOTE=dumgeek;34189]yeah this is a 50kbps stream at 320x240, and the quality of the image is excellent. I’d definitely rather have the apparent 2fps stuff now with high quality than an ugly image at high speed. Also helps for folks in the sticks still on phone modems. (lol… what’s that?)[/QUOTE]
It looks like they’re encoding it using a variable bit rate. WMRecorder jumps around from 0 kbps to around 72 kbps.
Seriously? What is your issue? Is anyone else annoyed by these Simon Cowell antics?
I just want to learn…everyone is entitled to post without CM1’s rhetoric…chill pill. Or, chill ‘spacer’ as was clarified in hearings today.
-af
[QUOTE=company man 1;34036]You are an undisputed idiot. go to the post #1231 & tell us what yourinterpretation of that video is. Until then know your roll & shut your mouth.[/QUOTE]
alvis yeah you’re right that would be the norm, also means time to save on bw depending upon frame to frame compression needs. You set the maximum and the encoder does the rest on the fly. rarely if ever have I seen anything set with a constant bit rate since the early days of digital video.
cheers.
I am curious about this too. I’m wondering what the knowledgable people think about this and could it/would it have anything to do with the well Mr. Williams spoke of in his 60 Minute interview? The well they got stuck in and had to abandon and start again with the Macondo well? Anybody?
[QUOTE=TroubledByThis;34172] … Could this be slight-of-hand as in, [I]“watch what my right hand is doing, don’t look at my left hand”[/I]
No offense to you TBT& I thank you for your great contributions , but these guys aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. CNBS & MSNBS showing they know even less about oil than they do the stock market.[QUOTE=TroubledByThis;34172]Thanks! Regarding [B]Thief Zones[/B]: A formation encountered during drilling into which circulating fluids can be lost … A near surface pocket or thief zone pathway or fractured layer of rock … I found this below to be an excellent video interview to raise questions about the bad news “they” are not telling us perhaps? Could this be slight-of-hand as in, [I]“watch what my right hand is doing, don’t look at my left hand”[/I] play?
I try and share as best I can with all, as I hope to learn from your experienced minds and training myself. I know to beware of what I cannot know. None of us have a great deal of info offered us to work with.
[B]YT upload date below was May 26th[/B] … any commentary would be appreciated, whether if you find this suspicion on target or not. At [U]2:44[/U] the speaker seems to suggest the possibility of a [U]natural fracture[/U] alongside the well, outflowing path of least resistance thereby releasing the majority of the spill unseen, in a way thay can’t be topkilled like this.
Coastie Girl, if you’ve been following from the beginning - you’d “learn” that the most annoying person on this thread is RLANASA. What you’re quoting from CM1 here is pretty much the consensus - especially over the last couple of days.
[QUOTE=Coastie Girl;34192]Seriously? What is your issue? Is anyone else annoyed by these Simon Cowell antics?
I just want to learn…everyone is entitled to post without CM1’s rhetoric…chill pill. Or, chill ‘spacer’ as was clarified in hearings today.
Ha! No offense taken. That’s why I asked … I wanted to know.
[QUOTE=company man 1;34197]No offense to you TBT& I thank you for your great contributions , but these guys aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer. CNBS showing they know even less about oil than they do the stock market.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Coastie Girl;34192]Seriously? What is your issue? Is anyone else annoyed by these Simon Cowell antics?
I just want to learn…everyone is entitled to post without CM1’s rhetoric…chill pill. Or, chill ‘spacer’ as was clarified in hearings today.
-af[/QUOTE]
He is quite a character CG, but his knowledge level and experience is insane to say the least - between him and a lot of other o & g pros posting here without them the rest of us would still be in the dark, watching idiots @foxnews spew garbage about speknak or whatever the latest impeach obama thing is going on (@idiots I’m sick of these guys now for not covering this).
CM1’s just getting quite a bit angry as I think he thinks that Rlanasa is a dis-info agent straight from BP, and is probably looking for a way to confirm it. I know he sounds quite uncontrolled/angry, but instead of focusing on his intense posts… pay a little more attention to the person he’s directing his anger towards, and exactly why. I give him a wide berth and don’t complain because he has proven his worth time and time again with intelligent insight, and information that can be backed up from many sources.
fwiw, I’m not totally stupid, both my uncles were o & g men (operations vp’s of major co’s), I know a little bit plus one of my best geek buds is a programmer like myself that doubles as a petro-geologist, and knows a lot about what happens in the field (desk jockey I know… but he has 20+ years in this biz so I give him a lot of credit). These 3 people have helped me validate a lot that I’ve read here from CM1 and others as I go along forming my opinion about wtf is actually happening 5k feet below.
I can see what’s going on here. I’m not calling anyone out as I don’t have the in depth knowledge that seemingly rlanasa does (if it’s real that is), and can’t even compare with basic knowledge of a drilling rig from operators here in this forum. So, I think a lot of us sit back and let CM1 do it for us.
CM1’s po’d. He indeed could lose his livelyhood due to the people that caused this incident. What better safe place than a forum where the biggest weapon is a keyboard behind an anonymous screen name against a suspected (but not confirmed) dis-info agent.
That’s about it. I’ve worked for a few that thorougholy believe in if I want your opinion I’ll give it to you.[QUOTE=CPTdrillersails;34175]Ha! No. An engineer will say "your contract says you will complete this xxx to 12,345 feet, but you only went to 12,330. Why can’t you go that extra 15 feet? The Phd won’t have any questions because they know everything already, and will “decline to participate” if other egos they have a problem with are present or acknowledged. Geologists (without phd) will be tolerated, as long as their insights don’t disturb the narrative as dictated by the engineers. Hands on drilling experts will be “tolerated” in “the room” only if they speak when asked to dance and supply the necessary ambiance/“crusty authenticity”/comic value.
Have I gotten that dynamic about right geodude/cm1?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Coastie Girl;34192]Seriously? What is your issue? Is anyone else annoyed by these Simon Cowell antics?
I just want to learn…everyone is entitled to post without CM1’s rhetoric…chill pill. Or, chill ‘spacer’ as was clarified in hearings today.
-af[/QUOTE]Hello Coastie girl. Maybe it would help if you went back & checked I don’t know, the previous 10 pages of posts that led to those remarks. This person who has not gone so far as to mention their line of work & who has posted misinformation on top of misinformation, is in the process of constantly trying to trainwreck this thread which has been useful to so many of us in getting proper information & giving the best correct information we can get & dissiminate due to BPs arrogance in not giving straight up data. BTW, thanks for the comparrison to Simon Cowell. He’s one of the most honest people I’ve ever seen on TV. Wouldn’t you agree? Don’t have to like him to know he’ s telling like he sees it.
[QUOTE=pumpjack hand;34177]Thanks for that googled info. Somebody please help me out here: they are going to get close to the Macondo well bore the same way they know where the Macondo well is, eg they drill with a rotary steerable system that generically would have accelerometers, fluxgate magnetometers, and gyros indicating direction and inclination, then downhole microprocessors use something like the minimum curvature method to compute x, y, z which becomes permanently stored data. The bit is connected to a shaft inside the bottom hole assembly that has an eccentric sleeve wrapped around it and the computer tells the sleeve which way to line up to point the bit by deflecting this shaft. This info is sent to surface in 8 bit code using mud pulse telemetry by momentarily opening and closing a tiny port making a slight mud pressure variance sensed at the surface. They can send info back to the tool from the surface also via mud pulse. So the relief well should know where the Macondo well bore is located and steer the bit close to it, then I guess they’ll use the magnetic field to intercept.
That assembly also most likely had a pressure sensor so they knew the formation pressures of the zones they’ve been pumping into, they also knew the porosity and permeability and had sonic info from well logs. Since they’ve been deadheading into all that open hole behind pipe and have fraced lots of zones the last couple of days, one reason the weight of the mud is important is because a heavy weight mud will have more hydrostatic in a shorter length of pipe than a lighter mud, just in case what they are pumping is being sucked in up the hole somewhere from where the oil and gas is coming out. But then again, the heavier the mud, the easier for it to go in a thief zone.[/QUOTE]
Pumping Jack I take it your an MWD guy. Have you drilled in this area & if so, realistically based on the few things we know about the troubles the last rig had, what is the realistic time frame & what are the odds of a good enough intercept to get a quick kill from below?
