Originally Posted by
Smit
Apparently it coming out of the well at 20,000 barrells a day Still! (even 80% of it is being capped to a tanker on the surface) but 20,000 barrells is 2847 litres a MINUTE coming out under 10BAR pressure... That's a fuckin unbelievable.... out of this 30cm thin pipe
Where did you get the numbers? 20000 bbl a day would be 2208 l a min.
Originally Posted by
warrenpenalver
is there still too much debris from the blown up rig to bring in a mobile platform, fit new pipe at the join you see there and carry on collecting oil??
Originally Posted by
Smit
I think from what i've been reading is that BP + Exxon have got a 2 rigs not far away and are attempting to penetrate into the same well to release some of the pressure... So the new pipes will split the pressure between the rigs..But as the well is quite a few miles under the seas bed it's gonig to take until July to reach the same depth of the original one which is capped.
You can't just joint up a pipe 2 miles down with 10 BAR pressure fluid coming out... Hence there best option was to 'cap' it... But it's still eaking even now so for another 6 weeks it's still gonna be spewing out into the sea
How do Chop/CossieBOB/Roger feel about seeing a rig in that state? Seeing as 11 people died iirc that's maybe 40-50% of a shift? Christ it would shit me up....
The new wells will effectively redirect the well flow.
10 bar is fuck all. 150 psi. It's way more than that i'm sure.
I guess seeing it brings reality home but wouldn't affect me or where i went. Shit just happens sometime
i think it was 11 people too and 2 worked for our company. It's not 40-50% of the shift though. That rig i'd guess had near 150 people on board. Over 100 anyway.
I'm not sure how obama would've reacted had it been an american company. He seems to be getting involved in things he doesnt know about. I've seen some of the reports in progress and yes there seem to have been some monumental fuck up's but not just by BP. Halliburton were the cement company with the suspect cement job, transocean own the rig and blow out preventers which didnt function etc etc.
I hope it all comes out in the end.
I tell you one thing for those poor bastards on the rig having to choose between burning to death or jumping 150 ft into the sea it must've been awful. Obviously life preservation takes over but to me the thought of jumping is almost enough to kill me!