Watch the BP ROV Under Sea Cams...Thread #27

[gateley]

Thread # 26: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8529005&mesg_id=8529005

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

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BP PORTAL to News, Updates, Vids, etc. http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechnicalupdate061010a.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:

The Oil Drum Latest Node: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6599 or the front page -- http://www.theoildrum.com/

Professor Goose Links to other Oil Drum topics: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=8548397

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

Great forum with lots of pics and video if you need to catch up - check out the other pages, too! 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

**BP Coffee Spill:** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p2BwRyBxV0

LATEST AND GREATEST: From jaxx, a great link (see first post below for info) http://www.drillscience.com/bp/




LIVE CAM LINKS:

All 12 cams on one page: http://spillcam.tk/
and: http://jtnog.org/
and: http://www.josephpalmer.com/ROV.html

Multi-view ROV page: http://bp.isevil.org

Great site w/multi-screens: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html

All cams (BP site): http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7062605

WKRG Video Stream: http://www.livestream.com/wkrg_oil_spill

Akamai Link: http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:46245.asx

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

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

ABC Feed: http://abcnews.go.com/video/video?id=6105570


A couple of helpful graphics to explain what you're looking at, oil plume permitting:






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



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[jaxx]

1. Hellooo gateley!

Thanks for the new thread. I just posted this link at the old one, has tons of links to BP & Halliburton papers, congressional hearings, lots of info from many sources.

http://www.drillscience.com/bp/

The best link for TOD is just the front page http://www.theoildrum.com
It always has the newest thread on top and you can go to the comments by clicking on comments. That's where I'm at now reading along.

[gateley]

8. I never knew that about TOD - D'oh! And I just added this other link (drill science)

to the OP.

[NYC_SKP]

2. Wah Hoo Ah!!!

Nice to have a fresh thread for any new updates...

:hi:

[gateley]

5. It will be nice to get some updates! Let's rock 'n roll! nt

[DoBotherMe]

3. I'm still following this topic

And I really appreciate all the work you guys and gals have put into gathering info that is so helpful. Thanks! Dana ; )

[gateley]

6. We're happy to have you, Dana! The contributions have been SO helpful to me!

:hi:

[flamingdem]

4. thx for all the links! nt

[gateley]

7. I think some should be dumped, others added, but I was hustling before I got

the dreaded spinning beach ball - lucked out.

Soon!

[gateley]

9. Has everyone seen the BP Coffee Spill? (Link above). You may not post here

any more unless/until you have done so.

Mother Superior

[HughMoran]

10. My whole family was laughing watching that

it's difficult to find anything that's not grim about this spill, but that skit is funny.

[jaxx]

11. LMAO

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

15. I hadn't seen it until now, way funny!

Dangling things from a string, throwing trash... sad, but just too funny not to laugh!

:hi:

[Curmudgeoness]

27. Where did you find BP Coffee Spill?

I just tried the link above for BP Coffee Spill and it tells me that the video has been removed due to copyright issues. Did I just get here too late?

[gateley]

28. It's all over You Tube, just type in BP Coffee, and it's also here in

the video section.

If you have a problem locating it, let me know. I hate it when they remove things like that! :hi:

EDIT: Here's one that's still there -- hurry! :7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ42aPoh55A

[Feron]

30. This is one of those videos that will never stop being funny. nt

[lamp_shade]

12. Heere

[lamp_shade]

13. With regard to the 48-hour deadline for BP to come up with a plan... OR ELSE.

Lots of "or else what" speculation going around. I found this response at TOD interesting:

"syncro on June 14, 2010 - 2:13am I think obama clearly sees that, too. That's why he spoke up about their $10 billion dividend and is insisting they set up a fund about twice as big as that dividend.

And while BP may be too busy to bother with obama, they are not too busy to bother about their stock price. And he has quite a week laid out for them that could send their stock into a tailspin again if BP comes out of it badly.

There's the 48 hour deadline on Mon. The presidential address to the nation on tues. The presidential meeting with the COB of BP and the congressional hearing including BP witnesses on Thurs. Boehner has also come out in favor of lifting the $75 million cap to unlimited damages. That xould pass this week too.

BP is going to be the focus of the world for the next week. I don't think they're going to want to be found unable to meet govt. deadlines for clean-up ioperation on top of it. The market will lose more confidence in their ability to effectively deal with the mess."

[jaxx]

14. TOD at 2:38am

The knowing people start tearing down the dougr conspiracy theory. It's good, it rambles, there are a few who are promoting the theory. Far down are some pics of rocks(?) and it really makes you LOL.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6599#comments_top

And with that, good Monday morning to everyone! :hi:

[gateley]

16. Bwah! The rocks!

:rofl:

Good Monday to you, jaxx!

[NYC_SKP]

17. A YouTube of "oil coming out of the rocks", "We are in a butt-load of trouble".

From a reply in the TOD link by jaxx...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7CX9SXEI8I

Of course I hope the narrator watching this ROV feed is wrong.

I have no idea what's coming out of the seabed here.

We don't know where these ROVs are when filming.

And, didn't BP place mats all around the BOP?

I've seen diagrams of these, but never noticed them in any feeds or stills.

:shrug:

Butt-load of trouble...

:scared:

[jaxx]

19. A little info:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6599#comment-649810

Re: the "seafloor leak" video

You can find detailed attempts to explain what is going on in the prior thread starting here:

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6594#comment-649226

But Kalliergo pretty much covered it.<<

[NYC_SKP]

20. Just sediment blowing around due to thrusters, etc.?

I'm good with that, also was unfamiliar with sea bottom make-up; hard rock vs thick sediment.

<-> oilfield brat on June 13, 2010 - 3:58pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Parent subthread | Comments top

I posted this in a thread above, but it is pertinent here:

If you watch closely in the beginning of the top video on Higgin's site, and focus on the debris being moved by small currents, the apparent leaks sprout just as an eddy of current hits them. Subsequent things that look like leaks shoot up just after the ROV changes position with its thrusters, especially noticeable in the big clouds at about 00:29, just after the ROV shifted to the left. These clouds are completely consistent with silt being blown around by the thrusters. No evidence here of a subsurface oil leak.
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<-> kalliergo on June 13, 2010 - 4:54pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Parent subthread | Comments top

"...the apparent leaks sprout just as an eddy of current hits them."

That is not apparent to me and, if it were the case, would not prove, or even suggest, that the activity visible is *not* leakage, from somewhere/something.

"Subsequent things that look like leaks... are completely consistent with silt being blown around by the thrusters."

That appears to be correct.

"No evidence here of a subsurface oil leak."

The evidence doesn't support that conclusion, or any other conclusion. Rather, it suggests further careful observation.

[jaxx]

21. Thank goodness for the oil drum and the smart people who post there.

LOL and the other ones too, they get us lots of good information when they ask questions and get the answers.

:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

22. But LOL at "Butt Load of Trouble" in the YouTube

:rofl:

[jaxx]

18. A one ton tarball......pic

GULF OF MEXICO – One of two one-ton masses of tarball material recovered south of Perdido Pass, Fla., by the crew of the lift boat Sailfish, a Vessel of Opportunity working in the largest oil spill response in U.S. history, on Saturday, June 11, 2010. Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class John Walker, USCG.

http://ht.ly/1XYBx

[Feron]

31. Wow!

So much for tarballs only existing in little pieces.

[jaxx]

34. It's a composit of all the little tar balls rolled into this one big one.

Said they skim along and it all melds together...they got two like this. But it's wild seeing it like that.

[gateley]

23. You guys - there's movement on the Ocean Intervention ROV 2 and

Skandi ROV 1. This may have not be news, it could just be constant monitoring. But it's the first time in a while I've seen anything but the still shot (except for the oil spew!) that they have on CNN. Anything of interest, or am I getting excited over nothing?

EDIT -- there's even some movement on the CNN now!

What's the ETA for the next cap?

[jaxx]

25. I read that the gauge is new and to measure the flow.

Don't know about the new cap...I had heard two days ago....last week! Have now read July. Who knows. But it is nice to see some action for a change down there.

edit to add: they are working on that manifold again at Live feeds from Boa Deep C – ROV 1

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/Boa_Deep_C_ROV_1.html

[gateley]

26. Good picture!

Even though they're not attempting some major action, like you said, it's nice to see something moving!

[jaxx]

24. Drawing of the Costner device.

Plus article here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2010/06/gulf-oil-spill-costner-solution-has-green-light-but-no-green.html

[Feron]

29. Lots of activity today:

Last night and today the Skandi Herc 14 ROV dropped dispersant wand duties for the most part and did some work near/on the kill lines near the BOP.







This afternoon it was working on methanol lines before returning to dispersant wand duty:







This mystery piece of equipment was lowered overnight:



One ROV has been watching these gauges on the cap all day:





It may be a pressure meter. The gov't required BP to install sensors to help measure the flow and this may be related.

This manifold is in the process of being relocated:



First the ROV picked these up and put them on its "dashboard":



The ROV version of a bobblehead:



Then the manifold was connected and is currently being lifted.





Miscellaneous:



View of the plume backlit. The yellow at the top is the ROV.



A view of the area around the cap.

[gateley]

32. Great shots, Feron! I just gotta say for the zillionth time, I wish they had

a play-by-play commentary going on at all times.

I'm getting antsy to 'move ahead' - although if we are truly capturing more oil daily, that's good news.

I wonder if they will keep attempting "let's try this" types of action until they get the relief wells ready to go.

[jaxx]

33. Great screen shots!

Is all this in prep for another capture ship? I've read so much I'm doing the duh thing.

[tekisui]

35. Thanks for the info and screenshots.

:thumbsup:

[Scurrilous]

36. K & R

:thumbsup:

[jaxx]

37. Have several ROVS working right now

Enterprise 1

Skandi 2

Boa 1 & 2

Boa using a wire brush to clean out a port...amazing the mundane looks so intricate subsea.

[gateley]

38. I don't think I'd be so riveted if it were taking place on land - but just as you say,

the mundane looks so intricate.

[lamp_shade]

39. Q4000 system coming online today maybe?

From the most current TOD thread:

"anon3803 on June 15, 2010 - 1:15am I was looking at the video feeds that BP has and noticed the containment update that went with it. It currently says: "Subsea operations for the long term containment option continue to progress; one of the air cans was deployed today." I'm just curious what "air cans" they're referring to. Is this part of the next containment system? Also does anyone know when the Q4000 system is supposed to come online? We seem to get so many fewer status updates now that Thad Allen is giving them instead of Mr. Suttles...

rainyday on June 15, 2010 - 2:12am Also does anyone know when the Q4000 system is supposed to come online?

Suttles' 6/13 letter in response to Watson's 6/12 letter demanding accelerated deployment of containment capacity gives 6/15 as the target date for full ramp up of the Q4000. Given how busy the ROVs have been this evening installing connections and moving manifolds, that seems optimistic.

I imagine BP would like to be able to report progress when they meet with Obama on Wednesday.

The air can is part of one of the floating riser systems they'll employ as part of the permanent containment systems. Take a look at Kent Wells 6/12 Technical Briefing . Some of the details have already changed, but it is a good overview and contains a photo of one of the two air cans."

[jaxx]

40. Live feeds from Q4000 – ROV 1

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/incident_response/STAGING/local_assets/html/Q4000_ROV1.html

It's down there and moving around now.

[lamp_shade]

41. Ocean Intervention ROV2 is lowering something(?)

It's out of view now but a few minutes ago I saw some kind of cage-like contraption.
Also... Poseidon ROV1 is lowering a basket

[lamp_shade]

42. Lots of stuff going on. Hard to keep track. I'm watching here:

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/bp-live-oil-spill-cam.html

[jaxx]

44. Live feeds from Ocean Intervention III - ROV2

Working around the BOP cap, looks like another gauge. Several 'hands' in the pie right now.

[Statistical]

43. The "air can" is the float to hold the "long term containment" riser pipe.

The cap will be connected to a riser which will rise to about 300 ft below the waterline. The aircan will be partially submerged to keep riser in place 300ft below surface. Tankers will connect to that riser will flexible hoses.

This will allow quick connect & disconnect in the event of hurricanes. Since the can will float (and hold the riser in place) about 300ft below the surface so it should be minimally affected by hurricanes.

[NYC_SKP]

45. What's new for Tuesday???

:hi:

:kick:

[jaxx]

46. Oil CEO's at congressional hearing.

And believe it or not, they are not just yessing what BP did about the problems with the drill. Also saying new regs are needed. Kind of interesting now and then.

[gateley]

48. Thanks - tuning in to C-Span. nt

[gateley]

49. C-Span cut away to the House. Please let me know if you find it elsewhere. nt

[jaxx]

54. I watched it on cspan3, a live stream.

Thursday is when the big BP duo are supposed to testify.

[gateley]

59. Oh - I was watching it on TV. I was pretty impressed by the grilling I saw today.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

[gateley]

47. *** Fire halts oil collection ***

UPDATE 2:50 p.m. ET: BP has issued a statement:
At approximately 9:30 am CDT, a small fire was observed at the top of the derrick on the Discoverer Enterprise. The fire was quickly extinguished. The preliminary view is that the fire was caused by a lightning strike.

There were no injuries. All procedures were followed and, as a precaution, the LMRP containment operation was shut-down. All safety shut-down systems operated as designed.

Final safety and operational assurance inspections are underway and operations are expected to recommence this afternoon.

UPDATE 2:39 p.m. ET: BP says the small fire started about 10:30 a.m. ET and was quickly contained. No one was injured, and collection of oil is expected to resume this afternoon, the company says.

UPDATE 2:36 p.m. ET: The Associated Press follows with an alert saying the fire was caused by a lightning strike.
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Bulletin from Reuters: "BP says small fire at top of derrick on Discover Enterprise caused temporary shutdown of oil spill collection."
We're trying to find out more and will post an update as soon as we can. Read more about the Discover Enterprise here.

http://fieldnotes.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/06/15/4512892-fire-halts-oil-collection

EDIT: Appears to be okay. Small fire, caused by lightning? Sounds as though shutting down the action was just following the safety procedures. Hope all is well!

EDIT #2 - UPDATE 3:18 p.m. ET: A spokesman for BP now says the company has no estimate on when the containment system will restart. It originally had said the process would resume this afternoon.

[Feron]

51. Very fortunate..

Being surrounded by oily waters, I'm glad that it was only a minor incident and was quickly under control.

Not minor to the hands I'll bet. :P

[Feron]

50. Link dump:

http://www.energy.gov/open/oilspilldata.htm

Includes updated detailed information on the oil collection amongst other things.

http://www.jwco.com/technical-litterature/tech.htm

Information about wild well control

http://www.rigzone.com/news/incident_images.asp?inc_id=1

Nice collection of photos and diagrams. A bit outdated however.

http://tinyurl.com/2cyk8er

Evergreen burner information (pdf). This will burn oil on the Q4000.

http://tinyurl.com/2cssvhe

Collection of diagrams and BP operational graphics put together by GenoS on #theoildrum IRC channel

http://tinyurl.com/365oay7

Cement and casing diagram

Vessels:

Q4000: http://www.helixesg.com/Portals/0/PDFs/q4000.pdf

Discoverer Enterprise: http://www.deepwater.com/fw/main/Discoverer-Enterprise-141.html

Boa Deep C: http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/boasubc/

Ocean Intervention III: http://www.oceaneering.com/subsea-projects/vessels/ocean-intervention-iii/

Skandi Neptune: http://tinyurl.com/392n8at

Viking Poseidon (pdf): http://tinyurl.com/23k4lzx

Toisa Pisces: http://www.sealionshipping.co.uk/pdf/Toisa%20Pisces.pdf

Helix Producer: http://www.mtshouston.org/pdfs/2007/Helix_phoenix_april07.pdf

Another multi-cam link:

http://www.sanaracreations.fi/rov-feeds/index.html

[jaxx]

57. That evergreen burner is a wild thing.

Saw a pic of it earlier today and the idea of burning off the oil is amazing.

[Feron]

52. Today's roundup of activity:

I left off at the manifold being moved. It was placed in its new location.

Connectors were cleaned:



and then it was all reconnected:





Skandi Herc 6 was on Methanol line Lance ops. I have no idea what a lance op is and I watched it the entire time.




Then something was lowered to the seabed:





It appears to be an empty box. Those are the most exciting pictures of it. LOL Have no idea what it is for.

Today:

Q4000's ROVs jumped into action:







It looked like the ROV was connecting something to the "Star Wars stormtrooper helmet" device.

And more action at a manifold:



Connecting, disconnecting, and knob turning.



Sibling ROV watching the ROV at the manifold controls.

There are lots of manifold pictures at the Life After the Oil Crash forum linked at the top of this thread.

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Come into the light Carol Ann:



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Ocean Intervention III deckhand thanks you for your time.

[NNN0LHI]

53. Real nice work there of keeping us advised on whats going on

Thank you for taking the time and doing the work. I really appreciate it.

Don

[jaxx]

55. Thanks Feron.

And you even got the clean up brush!

[csziggy]

56. Great recap - any word on whether they are back recovering oil after the lightning strike?

I went to bed last night (early this AM) and was happy that most of the cap was visible. Then when I got up this morning, there were big, billowing clouds of oil again. The news guys said that the rig collecting the oil was struck by lightning and had a fire so they had to stop collecting.

I guess the storm trooper helmet is the new cap?

[HughMoran]

58. Feron watches the cams

...so I don't have to :D

[gateley]

62. Ditto, and the captions free me from having to ask (repeatedly and constantly) what's that???nt

[gateley]

61. Better watch it - those deckhands are going to slap you with a voyeurism suit. nt

[Feron]

66. Well he was washing the ROV prior to that....

His face was on camera, but I didn't cap that.

I do know someone on one of the ships, but I need to check again and find out which one. I don't think he is one on of the main ships however.

So I always pay extra attention to the hands when the ROVs go topside. Doubtful I'll get to see him, but you never know...

[gateley]

60. New post by Professor Goose:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8566385&mesg_id=8566385

[jaxx]

63. No posts since last night...wow.

Must be quiet down below. I looked at the cams and yep, it's quiet. Which means I'll sleep today and not watch them. Have a good day everyone.

[jaxx]

64. Hmmm I am talking to myself.

The oil still gushing, but BP is 20b shorter. All in all, that was a productive day.

[NYC_SKP]

65. What's all this talk about the relief well not being a viable option anymore???

...because the casing is compromised?

Any clues?

:shrug:

[gateley]

67. Where did you hear that? Details? Do you/they mean the casing on the

existing well is compromised?

[NYC_SKP]

71. I don't buy it, but it's a theory. MotherJones article here, in a DU OP:

Reading over the article, it sounds like it was written by someone lacking some of the expertise and knowledge that others here and on the TOD threads have.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8576171

:shrug:

[jaxx]

72. That sounds like the dougr conspiracy theory talk.

They're sure it's compromised. The regular people say it isn't like they are saying. Regular as in the TOD people. Jeez at this point, who knows.

[gateley]

76. Apparently Simmons was on Ratigan today:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8582188

I know TOD doesn't necessarily agree with him (or was that just his claim that there were other gushers elsewhere?) - do you know if there is an actual way to determine if this is or isn't accurate?

[gateley]

68. We were just being very quiet so we didn't wake you! nt

[jaxx]

73. I knew you were the nicest people in the world!!

What a pain sleeping in the daytime. :hi:

[Feron]

69. Q4000 is online update...

Greetings from the Q4000



I'm guessing this is part of the ROV workstation.



The Q4000 and evergreen burner in action.

Not much else was going on:

More gauge reading although that has stopped for now:



More Methanol ops and spewing green gas:



It looks like something out of the 60s Batman TV show.

More manifold fun (split view):





First it was valve testing last night and today two ROVs were hooking up a manifold to presumably a crane. As far as I know, the manifold is still there. The picture above is two ROVs looking at each other.

What looks like debris. Maybe related to the sunken rig:



There were other pieces of debris scattered about as this ROV followed a cable. Unfortunately the Q4000 ROVs have a lousy picture quality.

I don't know what the ROV was doing here:



I think these are weights to the yellow floaties/sensors on a string down there:



It's been really slow lately. The only action right now is dispersant ops.

Have a good night all:

[gateley]

70. Thanks! They're working frantically knowing you're monitoring their progress!

Great shots and as always, very helpful! :hi:

[jaxx]

75. I like your pics and comments. They help.

Right now the enterprise ROV2 is showing a different view of the BOP.

OOps make that Rov1.

[gateley]

74. New post w/links from Professor Goose

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8579039

[gateley]

77. Whassup? About a half hour ago someone posted that the CNN cam was

showing the ROV just moving around. I looked but it's gone. Anything happening?

[HughMoran]

78. I don't see much - other than the underwater volcano that is

Looks like status quo for some time until the new cap. Q4000 doesn't appear to be making much of a dent yet :(

[gateley]

79. And you were so excited about the Q4000! I'm sorry. So, if this doesn't

yield a desired result (and I'm not really counting on 90%) is there a 'next attempt' as we await the completion of the relief well?

[HughMoran]

80. The new larger cap in July is supposed to have a much larger capacity

Wasn't the total amount they claim the final arrangement can do around 60,000 bpd? Also, the Q4000 can do another 7,000 bpd I think, which would bring the interim qty. to about 25,000 bpd.

[jaxx]

81. TGIF

Live feeds from Q4000 – ROV 1 Looks like it's checking something out. Any date for the new cap? Working really screws up my time reading. LOL

[jaxx]

82. Lots of info here........

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dff7zmqz_7c6rdwsc9

Table of Contents:

1. A note about Topic:
2. Current task/status (please also check FAQ/Dead Horse section for updates):
1. BP's Current Cap & Containment Plan
2. ROV Cam Feeds:
1. Youtube Clip PlayLists
3. FAQs and Dead horses (don't bring these up unless you truly have a novel angle, or q? not answered in linked sources):
4. Background Information:
1. Deepwater Horizon Blowout incident
2. Operations info from BP:
3. Surface operations:
4. Data and specs:
5. Graphics:
6. Slide Show:
7. Relief Wells:
8. ROVs:
9. BlowOut Response Equpment (SubSea Operations)
10. Other Equipment:
11. Misc:
5. Glossary:
6. Other Links of Interest:
1. BP Videos:
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Picked this up at TOD, from Prof.Goose, which leads to the site I showed above:

Here's a site FAQ that has been assembled by the diligent #theoildrum IRC team thus far. (If you are curious about live chat, etc., see point 5 in my introductory comment above.):

http://bit.ly/theoildrumirc

[DoBotherMe]

83. Kick

[jaxx]

84. Thread # 28 is up and running.

Getting ready for the weekend, when we hope there is some action under the Gulf, and lots of new info to come our way.

Thanks to everyone for hanging in there and contributing to the threads.

We've come a long way....and a longer way yet to go!!

[Feron]

85. Not much going on right now...

A new dispersant wand was installed:

http://tinyurl.com/23av7m9

On the Skandi Neptune ship, in the water, installed, and working. The last picture shows it accumulating oil gunk after a few hours of use. I can't see those holes remaining unclogged for long.

And something (scrap riser?) is being removed:





Lousy resolution of it being lifted.

And putting it in a box:





Fish!! There is a whole school of them at the upper part of the riser:



Unfortunately the schooling pictures just look like white dots.

And I spotted this one near the BOP:



Part of the Boa Deep C deck:



ROV being prepped for manifold work:



The manifold work is something we've all seen before.

Here's a box above the cap:



And currently there is work being done on the cap:



All of the oil is being blown away below.



It looks like they may be closing another valve.

Video of Evergreen burner burning at another location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq-f9gsHIqk

And a slew of documents from the Congressional Committee investigation: http://tinyurl.com/2fm3vng