Watch the BP ROV Under Sea Cams...Thread # 36

[jaxx]

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BP PORTAL to News, Updates, Vids, etc.:

>>> Kent Wells Static and Relief Well Kill (July 21): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechupdate_072110a.htm

>>> Kent Wells Sealing Cap Installation (July 9): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/sealingcapinstallationoverviewwithkentwells070910.htm

>>> Kent Wells Relief well overview and ranging animation (June 27): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/reliefwellgraphics062710.htm

>>> Kent Wells explanation of Top Hat and Oil Extraction (June 3 posting): http://bp.concerts.com/gom/lmrp6_060310.htm

>>> May 31 video by Kent Wells: http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechupdatelong053110.htm

>>> June 10 Kent Wells tech update: http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechnicalupdate061010a.htm


OTHER INFO LINKS:

Watch the gusher go from flow to stop: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/07/15/vos.oil.flow.key.moments.cnn?hpt=T1

Deepwater Horizon MC252 BP Oil Spill Disaster Reference Material:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=ddvbmqf2_0gt9p8q8q#ROV_Coordinate_System_01687258

The latest TheOilDrum thread (look for 'open thread'): http://www.theoildrum.com/

Interesting article here regarding BP documents explaining initial failure, pic heavy article: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/08/breaking-news-leaked-white-house-document-exposes-bp-gulf-oil-spill (FYI a conspiracy site, but good pics anyway)

Great forum with lots of pics and video if you need to catch up: (although the DUUSBPROVC is giving them a run for the money!)
http://www.doomers.us/forum2/index.php/topic,68178.4545

Subsea Response Links (great to view when there's downtime): https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYETicASkH8SZGZmN3ptcXpfN2M2cmR3c2M5&hl=en

And for a little levity: Super Mario: BP Oil Spill Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW4e8LtVC6I
The *BP Coffee Spill* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM&feature=youtube_gdata

Good info links: http://www.drillscience.com/bp/
and: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dff7zmqz_7c6rdwsc9 (from TOD)
and: http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/
Mapping the Response to BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (brought to us by NYC-SKP)


LIVE CAM LINKS:

Multi-view ROV page: http://data.plan9.de/akamai-bp-streams.html
and: http://www.mlittle.com/bp /
and: http://spillcam.tk /
and: http://jtnog.org/
and: http://www.josephpalmer.com/ROV.html
and: http://bp.isevil.org
and: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html

All cams (BP site): http://www.bp.com/sectionbodycopy.do?categoryId=9034366&contentId=7063636

Fox Feed: http://interactive.foxnews.com/livestream/live.html?cha

CNN Feed: http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=str

Relief wells in progress






And, finally, proof that
DU is on this project:



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[NYC_SKP]

1. Whoa! Flashbacks! Giant claw! Monkey fists! Epic spewage!

Wassup today?

:hi:

[Subdivisions]

3. I know, right? lol ... I had to blink twice =)

Yea, so what's up, jaxx? I heard a couple days ago that Chadmiral was saying there may be a problem with his annulus. Any details on that we should know?

[jaxx]

5. Fresh from TOD:

They went straight in with drill pipe (no riser) on Ent 1 now.

[jaxx]

4. LOL they are changing a few things down yonder.

Just watched a big long fish or eel march across the bottom....life is down there still. Anyway, things are going to get interesting again before they kill the well for keeps. That BOP change out will take time and we should be able to watch.

I figure we watched all along and can see it to the end. :hi:

[jaxx]

2. Hello ROVers.

I'm opening this back up because they are working at the capping stack and will down the road take off the old BOP and replace it with a new one.



This pic is "Assisting at the Capping Stack' and I took it just a few mins ago. According to the Oil Drum:
Current status via #theoildrum IRC:

- The 48h ambient pressure test was finished successfully - no oil/gas flow was observed.
- The lower ram of the capping stack has been opened
- A pipe from the Discoverer Enterprise has been put into the stacking cap, either to flush it out and/or with a camera to detect the "fish", i.e. the broken drill pipe, within the bop.

A report of how fishing for a broken pipe worked in a different case is: Fishing in the subsea BOP: DP has its limits. A disconnect was required that resulted in a small fish and a unique way to solve the problem ( http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3159/is_7_227/ai_n16689918/ ).

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6876#comments_top

[jaxx]

6. Today's update:

Subsea operational update:

BP has been authorized to begin open water fishing operations from the MC252 BOP. The fishing operations will aim at removing drill pipe within the MC252 BOP. Operations commenced this morning.

As directed by the NIC, the DDII is preparing its BOP for further use on the Macondo well. In doing so, the storm packer has been set and it has unlatched its BOP from the second relief well site.

The DDIII is on standby but maintaining full readiness to proceed when directed.

We anticipate the next update will be provided by around 10am CDT on August 22, 2010.

Updated August 21 at 10:00am CDT

[Kurovski]

7. Kick. (nt)

[jaxx]

8. ROVS are busy

BOP tool inspection going on right now:


Doing something with this pipe...pulling it?


All ROVS
http://www.bp.com/sectionbodycopy.do?categoryId=9034366&contentId=7063636


edit> remember that BOP is 5 stories tall

[jaxx]

9. ROVs are removing all the stuff they hung on the BOP

before the new stack was put on top of it. Must mean the tests are done and the BOP will be removed pretty soon. The drill pipe was pulled out.

There are 13 ROV feeds active right now...more than we've seen for a long time. One of them broke his hand......

[NYC_SKP]

10. Geology is "Fractured", Relief Wells May Fail ... BP is Using a "Cloak of Silence"

What are the professionals at TOD saying about this, if anything?

:shrug:

I just don't trust the more dramatic rantings that I read, we've heard this so many times before.

:patriot:

[jaxx]

11. They're saying it's BS.

The doomers like dougr are still hanging around with some of his satellites bringing on the hand wringing.

Just an example from today:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6879#comment-706544

Read that one and the one below from Rockman.

It really is a funny thread today, addressing some of the conspiracy stuff.

[LisaL]

12. So what happened with the bottom kill?

Why hasn't it still been done?

[jaxx]

13. Taking out the old BOP first

to have one there that is going to do the job. Then the RW will do the bottom kill.

[Generic Other]

14. Congressman talks about you obsessed ROV watchers!! good job!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x497910

[jaxx]

15. It's so interesting, who ever thought we'd get to see a mile under the sea?

I've learned a lot along the way and am still 100% novice about the stuff.


This is the well head with the old BOP still sitting on it....we don't see it much anymore. Now it's a prime piece with them getting ready to remove the BOP.

[jaxx]

16. This is the live camera inside the drill pipe going fishing.

Looking for the pipe that fell from the BOP....

[jaxx]

17. 4999.3 feet below the surface they have run into something.

They keep monitoring this, is it the drill pipe? :shrug:

[jaxx]

18. Nope. The fellas at TOD say

At about 6 am CDT the camera was/is back in the capping stack but appears to be looking at a half closed RAM just a few feet within the capping stack: (pic like above).

The black half-round part in the center is downhole, the piece in the left half of the picture appears to be one of the two parts of a blind shear RAM.

The RAM should be opened but one half appears to have malfunctioned.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6881#comment-707003

[gateley]

31. Did he mention jaxx by name? :-) nt

[NYC_SKP]

19. kick (nt)

:hi:

[jaxx]

20. Mornin NYC_SKP

Just ran across this pic that gives some perspective as to just how big that new capping stack is when seen with a ROV working on it.....



Word is that the capping stack didn't go 100% correct in the shut down and static kill either and that BOP's are 45-50% failure rate. Not very conducive to success, but then they also say the usuage and upkeep is a part of that....batteries in control devices etc.

Anyway the ROVs continue to unload the old BOP and work at the capping stack, flush out the drill pipe for the fishpipe.

:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

21. Hiya, Jaxx!

No room for error with this technology.

I'd say the industry has been damned lucky given the thousands of operations that are ongoing and the tens or hundreds of thousands of operations over the past, and that's just in the GOM.

Have you seen those graphics I've posted of the bore holes and pipelines?

Old journal entry: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/NYC_SKP/14

Have a great day!

:donut:

[jaxx]

22. Those are interesting graphics, thanks.

The GoM looks like a pincushion with all those wells drilled into it. No wonder there are seeps all the time.

Sounds like they got all 3 rams on the capping stack open and are going fishing again today. The BOP from the second RW is off and ready to go when the old one is removed. Selfishly I want them to wait till the weekend so I can watch. :dilemma:

[jaxx]

23. They've given up fishing.........

from http://twitter.com/BP_America - Allen's briefing earlier today (Fri., Aug. 27)

# We've decided to end fishing operations and it was recommended that we go ahead with the removal of the BOP. - Adm. Allen 1 minute ago via web

# Starting today and through the weekend, we will make preparations to remove the BOP and replace it. - Adm. Allen half a minute ago via web

# BOP removal should occur around Wed, if all conditions are met. Weather or other factors could cause schedule to change. - Adm. Allen

# Ambient pressure tests and perfomance of the well thus far indicate there should not be any problems. - Adm. Allen <<<


Sooooooo the pipe was stuck in hydrates and now they will try to pull off the BOP and it's long pipe....this is like the weekly serial at the old Bijou Theater.

Stay tuned...... :eyes:

[jaxx]

24. ROVs are getting the old BOP ready to be removed.

Very busy around the BOP, cables lying there to be hooked up to the cranes.



This will be a day to keep an eye on the happenings under sea.

[jaxx]

25. A couple videos from yesterday as they strip the BOP......

Blue Pod Hose Removal Part 1.asf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwKvaQUWiYE

Blue Pod Hose Removal Part 2.asf
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g8sd4IDKls

The saw is used to cut off things sticking out...and they just get in there and hack till it's gone.

We are to the phase called BOP Slng Connection. It's moving along, and it would seem hooking it up will come next with unlatching it from the well head. They say there are skimmers on the sea near by in case of a leak. The BOA Sub Sea ROV2 seems to be the one in the lead and the best feed to watch right now.

[jaxx]

26. This is the BOP from the DDll that will go on the well head.

Video of it as it's coming down....

DDII BOP Flyby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w16keIH5M

[jaxx]

27. Waiting waiting waiting

Seas high, nothing going on. Capping stack hooked up and ready to pull....one of these days.

[jaxx]

28. Okkkkkk today is the day!

They are getting ready now to remove the capping stack first, and then the BOP.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6911#comments_top

Good ROV feed that won't crash you...60 sec updates.

[gateley]

29. Damn. The computer I'm on can't access any of the links - the "plug in" hasn't

been installed. You'll be my eyes. CNN is only tracking the hurricane.

Fingers crossed!

:hi: :patriot:

[jaxx]

33. This one doesn't cause the computer to crash.

Updates every minute so no live feeds until you click on them.

http://bp.schmorp.de/?

[gateley]

36. Thanks! I'll give it a shot - I've also just switched to my old laptop so I can

download the "plug ins" so I may be up and running in a few. :hi:

[jaxx]

37. I am going to have to get some sleep so I can work again tonight.

Bummer. I'll check in when I wake up. You guys do screen shots if they lift it please!!

[gateley]

39. I'll see what I can do - my other laptop let me down (there's a reason why I got

a new one :7) --

But we'll get it covered for you. Sleep well knowing you may awaken to exciting "Mission Accomplished" photos!

[Subdivisions]

30. Sub here, front and center, Cmdr Jaxx! n/t

[jaxx]

32. Getting the capping stack ready to be pulled.

Getting the cables on and getting ready.

[Subdivisions]

34. Is that the Hos ROV 1 cam you're watching, Jaxx?

[jaxx]

35. Yes that's the one.

http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:30948.asx

[Subdivisions]

38. Jaxx, do you know what we're looking at in this cam --->

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/Q4000_ROV2.html

[jaxx]

40. According to TOD:

The empty connector at the end of the Q4000 drill string is currently visible via Q4000 ROV2 at http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:35523.asx , waiting to be lowered onto the spool once the Q4000 has moved into position above the well.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6911#comment-712841

I hope there are some videos up soon about them taking the capping stack off.

[jaxx]

41. It's BOP day.

Good info at TOD: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6915#comments_top

[jaxx]

42. It's OFF.

No problem, lifted right off as planned. No oil leaking. My gawd they said the BOP and the transition spool and the rest of the stuff weighed one million pounds. WOW!



Old BOP off.

[jaxx]

43. The empty well head.

What a relief. Not sure when the new one will go on, but soon. And then the relief well will be finished and the demon Macondo put to sleep forever.

Well done ROVs. Those people are just plain amazing.

[jaxx]

44. The new BOP is in place.....that was fast.

You snooze, you lose....and I snoozed.

I think the saga of the BP Deep Water Horizon Blowout is over. Man triumphed once again and tamed the unruly nature.

:hi:

[jaxx]

45. The End.

This watching of the ROVs started on May 31, 2010 when they were getting ready to put the first cap on....the one that gushed until July 15 when the new cap and stack finally stopped the flow. We watched the diamond saw get stuck and the giant shear snap the drill pipe.

It has evolved on with all the events, the watching, the comments, the images, until the end when tonight they brought the old BOP up onto the Q4000, to be taken away as evidence and examined to find what caused the blowout on April 20, 2010....the beginning of the odyssey.

I leave you with this pic of the BOP being lowered onto the platform:





The best to you all. :hi: