If the DWH sank, now the issue is getting the a new drill rig to the location to drill a new well and intercept the old one to close the well and stop the gas flow.
my thoughts and prayers go out the families of the missing 11…
Discoverer Enterprise will be doing just that.
[QUOTE=pribas;31339]If the DWH sank, now the issue is getting the a new drill rig to the location to drill a new well and intercept the old one to close the well and stop the gas flow.[/QUOTE]
Discoverer Enterprise is headed over to do just that.
[QUOTE=rbrock497;31342]Discoverer Enterprise is headed over to do just that.[/QUOTE]
How long will it take if that’s the case? I would expect days, but could it be weeks?
[QUOTE=egemeaux;31343]How long will it take if that’s the case? I would expect days, but could it be weeks?[/QUOTE]
From what I gather, about a week or so at best.
Can confirm that the Discoverer Enterprise has been pulled off it’s current job and is heading over to do a side track on the well that DWH was working when the incident occurred. It’s become apparent the tree is wrecked and going in via side track has been decided as the method chosen to plug the well. Enterprise is the right ship for the job . . . it is a drilling beast.
Please clarify when the Enterprise is heading over. Out of my front window, there is no movement of the vessel. The Ship will need to secure the current well that it’s on before moving over. This could take as little as 3 days and possibly up to 6 days to secure a well. Depends on what MMS requires or permits them to do.
Watch out for those buoyancy modules! They’ll be popping up all over the place.
CNN is reporting that the USCG has confirmed the the rig has sunk.
Coast guard recieved word at 1021. The fire is out according to the report.
Yep - this from wwltv.com ---- hopefully some good news comes in.
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Oil-rig-survivors-back-on-land-91800739.html
Noticed the TFR has been extended out from 5 to 7 miles and I would bet they extend it out even farther before its over.
What most don’t realize is that BP has flowlines at the subsea level. Not only did Transocean / BP lose a drilling rig, but it’s possible that they could lose some of their assets. I’m sure the flow lines were shut down immediately upon learning of the rig fire.
I agree, those riser modules (floatation) should be popping up here and there. Does anyone have footage of it going below sea level? The Horizon should have had a thresold of approx. 25 - 30 deg list before rolling over.
I remeber Red Adair fighting the Bay of Campeche Spill in 1979, she oozed at 20k Bbls per day
Unlikely that there are any flowlines out here as this is an exploration well.
There are flowlines in the area. Both Nakika and Blind Faith Production facilities are in the area and both have extensive flowlines.
There’s a big misconception with the Exploration aspect. A company will generally tell you that they are either Exploration or Production. The exploration aspect could means 1 of several options. True exploration, development, completion, etc. I saw a morning report that showed them at 18,260’ depth. True exploration would be much deeper than that for a production facility being within 30 miles away from them. Another oil company has several wells reported in the area that has been drilled for many years now. Nevertheless, all the major Oil Companies know about this area and it’s highly unlikely that it would have been true exploration.
Remeber, Anchor vessels were only within 10 miles from the Horizon. I can comment on these anchor vessels, but will not release any information as I am directly associated with that operation as well as working from another location that I’m currently on.
I would as always, express my prayers and wishes for the missing, injured (both physically and mentally) and their families, and the whole Transocean “family.” So far, those I know who worked on the rig were home.
I can understand families and friends being concerned about notification and the time frame. That wait must be agonizing. BUT because of foul ups at previous disasters, there are protocols on how and when notifications, both positive and negative are made. Usually the bad news is delivered first because you don’t the families of the missing figuring it out when everyone BUT them have been told something. Secondly the need to VERIFY and re-verify the info is paramount. There is no bigger notification error than miss-notification. As the military about that one…
Seen in one story lawsuits have already been filed… geez… we don’t even know for sure what happen…
My appologies, I should have been more specific. As this well was the first of the two planned for the Macondo prospect it was unlikely that this well had a flowline already.
The well was drilling on the east-central side of the block (MC 252). Current flowlines (MMS data) are all at the southern end of the block, roughly 1.5 to 2 miles away. Shell has a NW/SE oil line passing on the far SW corner of the block, and running from Nakika to onshore. ENI has an an E-W gas line paralleling the southern edge of the block, passing from Seventeen Hands (MC 299) to Gemini (MC 292).