1 Firsties???

2

It's a travesty that a sporting spectacle like that ends on penalty kicks.

They should have sudden death until forever.

 

3 You can go here and find the right feed. 

4

Check out Enerprise Rov 2.

5 It's clear enough, but it looks to be the underside of something.  Or the camera is upside down.

6 dis a game you don't watch. sounds moronish to me

7 I sure do hope this is good news - looks like it's working for now....

8 A few of the other attempts worked, or seemed to for a while, but then did not.  If this does work, why did it take so long to replace whatever was replaced with a new version?

9 And Obama will naturally take credit for capping the well. He's the savior so he waved his hand and it was done!

10 8 A few of the other attempts worked, or seemed to for a while, but then did not. If this does work, why did it take so long to replace whatever was replaced with a new version? Because this was done on the go. That shit is a mile deep so it's not like they can get down there right away. Uhmm is it leaking now on Enterprise ROV 2?

11 Bitchface?  Suck my big Oklahoma mountain oysters.

12 Two hours and 1-0? What joy! Rapture. Oh, brother

13 Eh false alarm I guess. I'm not sure what to expect.

14

It's a travesty that a sporting spectacle like that ends on penalty kicks.

They should have sudden death until forever.

 

Posted by: at July 11, 2010 11:03 PM (pfMMA)

--It did not end with penalty kicks.  It was in "overtime," which is not sudden death in World Cup play.

15 Does that mean this "soccer" thing can sink back into well-deserved obscurity for another year now?

Please?

16 Where in the world do you get the notion the game went to penalty kicks? It did no such thing. 1-0 in extra time, goal was legit.

17 Good, the oil has stopped flowing, because I see nothing happening.

18 So the well's not plugged and the World Cup was not settled on penalty kicks, but other than that the post is dead-on balls accurate?

19 Does that mean this "soccer" thing can sink back into well-deserved obscurity for another year now?

Please?

The Angels got yer All-Star game coming right up on Tuesday night; Home Run derby tomorrow night.

20 palin-steele over at C&L is so excited he can barely contain himself:


Good news fellow C&L comrade patriots! Obama just flew down from D.C. in his Superman outfit and single handedly plugged the oil leak ! I knew that evil Boosh Luthor wouldn't get the best of him !

21 For a 1-0 game, those Ice Wops got their butts handed to them. At least that's what it looked like at about the 70th minute and on.

A barely competitive, 1-0 game... which tells you everything you need to know about the World Cup. They like scoring like Obama likes America.

22 "it was a penalty kick superthing."

Uhh, no.

23 So the well's not plugged and the World Cup was not settled on penalty kicks, but other than that the post is dead-on balls accurate?

It's "truthy".

24 A few of the other attempts worked, or seemed to for a while, but then did not.  If this does work, why did it take so long to replace whatever was replaced with a new version?

Because they had reasons to believe that that the well and all of their equipment on it might not be perzackly stable?

That and the whole operating with robots a mile underwater, thing.

My first two guesses.

25 I love how un-glamorous those robots are.  Not nearly the beauts you see in movies.

26

No need to thank me, I am but only a simple man.

27 What's C&L?

28 I wonder why they couldn't have done this 30 or, say, 60 days ago.

29 27 What's C&L?


Crooks and Liars.

30

I will be making a speech about my efforts to cap this well tomorrow. 

31

In the feed from Ocean Intervention III ROV 2, you can see the other robot working up close. 

I can't tell what they're doing in the Enterprise ROV 2 feed.

32 If you wanted to write something about that soccer game you could write about the bombing that killed 64 people watching the game on TV in Uganda.  Most of us here don't pay attention to soccer anyway. 

33 Oh, goody goody goody!  Do you see that!  We have something to take credit for!  We did something right!  This is gonna be g-great!

34 Wow, 6500 PSI on that gauge.  And it's shaking like Michael J Fox.

35 Looks like the Enterprise ROV 2 is hooking up the jumper cables now.

Finally!

36 (Hoooold on, baby.  Hold on.)

37 DaveinTexas, you didn't watch the game, don't understand soccer, don't understand the concept of extra-time, just don't know what you're talking about. Spain beat the Netherlands in extra time. Extra time is 30 minutes long, and each time spends 15 minutes on a different half of the field. Spain won after the teams had changed sides. There was a pass and the ball was booted in quite neatly. Nothing the goalie could do to defend against it. The goal had nothing to do with a penalty kick. So all the ignorami (including Dave) who didn't watch but busily bumped their rubber gums, just chill.

38

Spain won that turd in a penalty kickoff round, right?

39 Was there some type of major sporting event that happened today?

40 So Spain capped the well?

41
What's C&L?

Posted by: ParisParamus at July 11, 2010 11:56 PM (qxV2+)

Crooks & Liars. We're having a wienie roast over there and decided to camp out for awhile.

42

Obama, we should leave the spigot opon on that well or else we'll have to talk about Obamacare.

43 3 You can go here and find the right feed.

That's the James Cameron fake feed. You didn't think that they actually consulted him for his underwater expertise, did you?

In the meantime... we're all doooomed.

44 6 dis a game you don't watch. sounds moronish to me

Maybe we wouldn't "dis" it so much if those who do watch it weren't so smug and condescending. "The world's most watched sporting event"? So friggin' what?

 We. Just. Don't. Care.

Deal with it.

45 Some one said something about Spain and a shoot out.  Bout' time they gave those EuroFags some guns.

46 Not a soccer fan in the slightest but congratulations to Spain for a well earned victory!

They're only the eighth country now to win a World Cup.  Of those eight, five have won two or more.

Uruguay - 2
Argentina - 2
West Germany - 3*
Italy - 4
Brazil - 5

*Yep, WEST Germany.

England and France (and now Spain) have won one each, making them seem like crazy statistical anomalies.

The next World Cup in 2014 is in Brazil.  Gee, I wonder who's gonna win that one?

47 Those soccer players aren't very good looking little girls.  Is it some kind of European hormone thing?

48 I've been hittin Titleists out into the gulf for weeks, and still haven't put one in the hole yet. What the hell do I look like? Tiger Woods?

49 See all 12 feeds: http://www.jtnog.org/

50 OFF SOCK!

51 I was on the soccer team in junior high and high school 30 years ago when soccer was really obscure. I still have no clue wtf I was thinking with that one.

52 Okay, oil's still cominng out.  Look at the Ocean Intervention III ROV 2 feed.

53 It was looking so nice there for a while.

54 You know you're having a boring night when live undewater cams seem interesting.

55 No, the NASCAR race was last night.  And I think the All Star break is happening now.  And football doesn't start for 2 months almost.  And the NBA just finished their season.  So definitely a big NOPE.

Well, some guy in a 3 won the Lucas Oil 200 (of the Camping World truck series, oh and thanks to Sprint, Nationwide, Coke-Cola, and Sunoco while I'm at it) in Iowa this afternoon.

56

I'm watching it on CNN (live feed), and the oil's still coming out. Looks like it's more of a directed stream, though.

Heh. It says "no audio". Well, no shit. Maybe they can get Anderson Cooper down their with a microphone.

Barry: "Let me be clear: I have plugged the dang hole. Now check out this putt..."

57 I hope it is capped. I don't care who takes credit for it.

58 O/T:  Wonder what happened?  "Police have released few details about the shooting, but say the suspect was shot by three officers while exiting the store, He died from his injuries. Friends and family members say the suspect is Erik Scott, a West Point graduate, and in his 30's. One friend said Scott was at Costco to pick up a prescription."

59

I hope it is capped. I don't care who takes credit for it.

I agree for the sake of the folks living down there.

But you just know the media will start up the "Look what Barry did!" crap. In a week they'll be acting like the oil only leaked for a day before President Tar Balls waved his magic wand and fixed everything.

Oil spills aren't as destructive when a democrap is president.

60

They're going to put another stack of rams on top of the "spool" they just bolted to the flange. It's being lowered on drill pipe from the Discoverer Inspiration and is currently at ~1000 ft. It will take hours to get down there.

Not sure why it wasn't already staged since the DI has two derricks.

The ram stack will still leak out the top. They're going to put another top hat on top, but it will be a sealing top hat with access ports allowing production. Then there will be no more leaks.

They will also test closing the rams to see if they cen seal the well altogether, but that's dicey in case the pressure gets too high. The flex joint that is just below the flange they've been working on is only rated to ~3000 psi I believe.

 

 

61 Why didn't they do it two months ago?

62 O/T:  There needs to be a new saying:  "As greedy as Oprah Winfrey." 

63

@51: Thanks for the all in one cams link...handy.

@56: It is interesting though...like watching work being done live on the moon or Mars

64 Why didn't they do it two months ago?

They had to build the thing first.

65

61

Did you say President Tar Balls? ha ha ha too funny and too many easy inferences

66

That thing the arms are holding is a hydraulic wrench.  The camera goes to the guages because they monitor how much they pressure up on the nut.  They pressure up three times each. 

You can see the hydraulic feed hose.   It's the red hose going to the wrench.  One tube goes in while the other takes the fluid that exits.

I'm a gearhead from way back.

67 I was wondering what that business with the gauges was.

68

 Not sure if I buy what molan labe said about another stack of rams.  The BOP weighs 450 tons, and it sits on pipe that comes out of the hole.  I don't think they could stack another 450 tons on top of that. 

I think with a clean mating surface, that thing on top with the big lip where the oil is not coming out, they can just put another top hat type thing on that wrenches down after hooking onto that giant lip.

If you look at the feed from Enterprise ROV 2 they were showing a thing that looked like a top hat, but I'm not sure.  The shot was from the bottom.  It looked like they were prepping it, cleaning the mating surface.  Not sure, since I figured they'd have to have a different, new top hat with the ability to crank down.

69

"not" = "now" 

70

Enterprise ROV2 is the green looking one?...kinda hard to make out what's going on there.

Why would they want to put a BOP on it if the goal is to just kill the well?...unless they are planning to get more oil out of it?

71

That green shit was coming out of a metal wand they had stuck up into a top-hat looking thing. The stuff was lighter than water and was pooling underneath in a large bowl-shaped cavity.

Then a Fritos bag drifted by.

72

I was just looking near the top of the new thingy.  There are large arm type things mounted underneath the new opening.  Maybe they are going to use the old top hat, and the new arms are what they crank it down with.  I think that's it.  With a smooth mating surface and big arms to hold down the cap, that'd solve most of the leak problem.  Seems like.

 

73

Fritos?...maybe the whole thing really is being staged and they're really only in 40 feet of water in a tank and James Cameron is directing it and one of the stage hands dropped his fritos during lunch break?

Kinda wondering what that green shit is...

74

There are large arm type things mounted underneath the new opening.  Maybe they are going to use the old top hat, and the new arms are what they crank it down with. 

...kind of like the lid of a pressure cooker...

75 Kidding about the Fritos.  I got the distinct impression they were using the green shit to clean the old top hat--if that's what it was.

76 Success has a thousand fathers.  Watch as Zero claims paternity tomorrow...

77

Yeah, just got a brief glimpse of where it was coming from...some kind of solvent maybe.

That cylindrical shaped thing with the pole sticking up is the top hat?...looks kinda beat

78

Yeah, watch him take credit for it then have it blow out again...he's a jinx...the best thing he can do to help it is stay as far away as possible

79

Success has a thousand fathers.

So does Chavez.

80

See that wide opening in the bottom of the cylindrical thing you mentioned?  The thing with the pole in it?  That's where the green shit pooled for a long time.  If that's the old cap, that hole is the mating surface, and they'd want it clean.

81

Thing is, that cylander thing doesn't have the same metal guide tabs the old top hat had.  The top hat had four triangular guide tabs.

82

Success has a thousand fathers.

So does Chavez.

What's Tuco's line from the Good the Bad and the Ugly?

You want to know who you are? Huh? You want to know who's son you are? You don't, I do, everybody does... you're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.

Yeah, sounds like ol' Hugo.

83 Those tabs were and the bottom edge of the cylander.

84

@ J Wilde...I was just thinking of that same movie quote

85 I don't see them being able to get any kind of seal out of that thing with the pole inside it...the bottom's pretty roughed up...though that might be dirt.  Looks like they're doing a close up inspection of it anyway...

86

I forgot about that movie line, JW.  Nice.

87 I do believe I'm going to turn in...'night guys.

88

Here's the old top hat.  You can see the triangular guide tabs sticking out of the oil plume.

Re that thing with the pole in it:  I was thinking the mating surface was inside the opening, not the flat bottom.  The top of the new section of pipe is a nozzle/nipple thingy with a big, fat lip.  That's where the oil is now coming out.  Under that are three large arms that reach wide and up--looks like they're for grabbing onto something.

 

89

rdbrewer @70: You can watch them lowering the capping ram stack here

http://tinyurl.com/3929xwb

 

90

The new stack has only three rams and weighs ~80 tons.

It will be no problem for the wellhead. The upper part of the well is constructed from three concentric rings of casing with cement in between.

You've got 36" OD casing going down 300 feet, then 28" down 1200 ft, then 22" down almost 3000 ft. All three strings cemented back to surface. That is not going anywhere.

 

91 500 ft to go if anyone's watching. That's ~6 connections.

92

Posted by: Molon Labe at July 12, 2010 01:44 AM (kYpqT)

You got it right in your posts.  My kid ran the BP completions umbilical that they are using to control the latching and the intervention BOP. 

93 Further, if they can't actually kill it by pumping heavy mud down through this assembly they will be able to choke it and divert the flow to the Deepwater Enterprise and the Deepwater Inspiration.  Each can handle 15,000 bbl/day.  The Q4000 will go away, all it could do was flare. 

94

Now, suddenly the spill(or rather the lack thereof) will be newsworthy....

 

"change"

Wonder if Bury will have the stones to try to get his full aikido on and campaign on "my party's brilliant display of competence in the golf"?

95 If this cap works are they going to keep the well in production until the relief wells get there or use the new device to seal it until it can be put in full production?

96 Any more news on the lady who got blown up or rigs leaving the gulf?

97

97 Jean,

 

they are playing it real close to their vest...they almost have to keep it in production to one degree or another so they are controlling the massive pressure, that was what killed the original shot at topkill was the wild pressure.

98

98 Jean,

Axelturf says the rigs leaving is not "optimal"....

I guess what Axelturf means is "come on guys you know we have to engage in the theatrics and not let a good crisis go to waste..."

99 or it could be that he really means he hates the fact they will do their work anywhere...always hard to tell with moonbats.

100 This well will never be productive. They will kill it with cement from the relief wells. Someone will drill back into the formation though it won't be BP.

101

102 Molon Labe,

I'll go with the Chinese or the Cubans for a 1000 Alex.

102 Likely going to be Exxon. When they buy BP they will acquire the lease.

103

>> DaveinTexas, you didn't watch the game, don't understand soccer, don't understand the concept of extra-time, just don't know what you're talking about.

All true.

See if you can guess what else I don't do.

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