Gulf Oil Platform Explosion and Spill

The Iran / BP connection is very interesting. Thanks for providing the links. Typical Big Oil move to scam as much resources as possible and pay very little for it. Iran's objection to the agreement makes one wonder if this not one of the main reasons for the animosity towards the country. Pay back for going against the illuminati.

Will history repeat itself?

4 years ago (2006), 17 years after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Oil remains just under the surface of formerly pristine beaches. Corexit breaks down the oil to fine droplets then it is flushed with water beneath the surface. It is more cost effective for oil companies to do this than deal with disposing thousands of tons of raw crude oil.

17 years after the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu7OGW0BMZc

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1999: Exxon Valdez oil spill, 10 years later

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29796025#29796025

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1989: FBI investigating Exxon Valdez oil spill

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1989: Bush considers federal takeover of Valdez cleanup

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/29796025#29796022

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Wow Metaw3. Talk about synchronicity. I was just watching this. Foreshadowing what is to come for the folks of the gulf.

I think I found it full:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMEJsloA1YU&feature=PlayList&p=8063B7229E5BC25D&playnext_from=PL&index=0&playnext=1

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Ei Yei Yei...

Y'know what My Bothers and Sisters ? The farther back We go - The more We'll see it was scripted by Them to occur as such. They're Old Hats at this Extinction / False Flag Game and have been playin'/doin' It a long time...

In fact - Aeons...

The one thing We can see though is this. They don't destroy something needlessly. That They do this at all means We've won of of a sort. What I mean is this...

Things didn't go to script if You will. Rather than let Us evolve into what We're supposed to be - Its hoped by Them that an Extinction Level Event + a subsequent WW will rid them of those They don't wish to be around on Terra (The 20 per cent or so and climbing that are Awake and onto Them as the Shift approaches)...

It seems - They will try it for the Fourth time or so the reasoning would suggest...



We must Stand - Be Vigilant as it never works out for Them... Some always survive...



Riddle Me this Ascender ? Ever wonder how All of these Secret Societies got Their Start. Well - Some of 'em and by no means All were Survivors of the Edits These Darker Ones have wrought previously...

Some would say whoa - The Negativity Merc but I would say this. As it gets bleaker and bleaker I intend this if nothing else. To Survive and go further in spite of Their efforts to prevent It...

BP Cuts Claim Payments To 40,000 People With
Incomplete Files

(AP) BP has decided to reduce payments to tens of thousands of
people whose claim files are incomplete, the secretary of Louisiana's
Department of Children and Family Services said.

"This action is irresponsible and in complete contrast to BP's
repeated promise that they will 'make things right,'" the secretary,
Kristy Nichols, wrote in a letter sent Friday to federal oil spill
claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg.

It was not immediately clear how severe the payment cuts would be. BP
did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Nichols said her department discovered the change after reviewing
BP's Thursday claims summary, which showed a significant cut in daily
payments.

She said a BP representative estimated more than 40,000 of the 99,508
people who have filed claims may get lower checks. That "will be
devastating to individuals surviving financially month-to-month," she
wrotehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/12/bp-cuts-claim-payments-to_n_643049.html

First Posted: 07-12-10 12:32 PM | Updated: 07-12-10 12:49
PM

It’s Official: Huge Area of the Gulf Has Been
Turned Into A Massive Dead Zone By The BP Gulf Oil Spill
Posted
by Alexander Higgins -
July 12, 2010 at 2:37 am
I recently wrote an article about the millions
of dead fish float ashore during a massive exodus of deep sea life to
the coast to avoid the BP Gulf Oil Spill.
In that article scientists speculated that the fish were migrating to
shallow waters to avoid oxygen depleted waters otherwise know as “dead
zones” where no life can live.
I then called out the press for labeling the exodus of sea life as
“strange” and “unusual”.
<blockquote>It seems that Government, and at points the media, is
just as happy to mindlessly echo the massive campaign of disinformation
being dished out by BP as if it were absolute fact.
That would signify that it is time to change gears and go after the
press for continuing to disservice the public by publishing BP’s lip
service.
The press needs to be held to standard of journalistic integrity that
scolds them for publishing information released by BP without vetting
that information first.
In my last post, Sea
Life Flocks To Coast To Avoid The BP Gulf Oil Spill As Millions of
Dead Fish Float Ashore, I did just that.
In that post the Associated Press labeled the mass exodus of deep sea
life swarming to clean shallow coastal waters in order to avoid the
oil, methane and toxic
dispersants as both strange and unusual.
I find nothing strange or unusual about helpless sea life fleeing
toxic waters in order to survive.
Now we have the the latest round of lies coming from BP.
They are denying the existence of plumes of methane that scientists
are now finding all over the Gulf of Mexico in concentrations up to 10,000 times higher than
normal.
The headlines currently in the press about these methane plumes are
smack full of the same story line that was floating around in the media
when scientists first reported that they
discovered the underwater plumes of oil which where
unsurprisingly denied by both BP and the Federal Government.</blockquote>
You can see some shocking
photos of the sea life that couldn’t escape the BP Gulf oil spill here.
Discovery News is now reporting that scientists
have confirmed a massive dead zone, covering over 1,600 square miles,
has been created off the coast of Alabama and they are
pointing their fingers at the BP Gulf Oil Spill as the culprit.http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/12/official-huge-area-gulf-turned-massive-dead-zone-bp-gulf-oil-spill/

<blockquote>
Dead Zone in Gulf Linked to Oil


Oxygen-starved waters that have persisted for more than a month
in the Gulf of Mexico are likely due to the BP oil spill, researchers
say.
THE GIST

• A zone of low oxygen has persisted for more than a month
  off the coast of Alabama.
  
• Wildlife that can move has left. Plankton in the low-oxygen
  zones has died.
  
• The long-term effects are uncertain. [In deep waters it
  could last for decades]
  

An unusual low oxygen zone in Gulf of Mexico waters off the Alabama
shore has persisted for more than a month, and evidence points
to the ongoing Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the cause.
Oil spills can deplete oxygen in water by providing a source of food
to microbes that grow on oil and consume oxygen in the process.
Researchers can’t say how low oxygen levels will affect the region’s
ecosystem in the long term, but for now, most animals that can
swim away have left the area. Plankton in the zone have died.
The researchers measured low oxygen levels along the entire
40-mile stretch they sampled around Dauphin Island, Ala., from
about 40 miles offshore to within a mile or two of the shoreline.
The bottom layer of water was oxygen-depleted at
depths of about 30 feet close to shore to 100 feet further out, along
the continental shelf — a rim of shallow water tracing the
coast from Mississippi to Florida.
“It’s not little local pockets,” said Monty Graham
of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, who is tracking the zone. “It’s
over a regional scale. It wouldn’t surprise me if there were
a band of low oxygen over that entire area between the Mississippi
River and Apalachicola, Florida.”
“The low oxygen was pushing up very close to the shore,” he added.
…
Now the researchers have more evidence suggesting the rivers are an
unlikely culprit. The low oxygen levels have persisted past the time of
the seasonal freshwater surge into the Gulf; the zone is larger than
would be expected from river-borne nutrients; and the low-oxygen
waters seem to be arriving via a tongue of cold water that has
pushed up from offshore carrying elevated levels of methane,
Graham said.
The team is still waiting for test results measuring oil levels in
the oxygen-depleted waters, which would help pinpoint oil as the cause.
Long-term effects are uncertain. “I don’t think anybody can predict
anything with confidence about what the ecosystem will do,” Graham said.
The good news is that the shallow waters turn over relatively
quickly, so once the spill is stopped, oxygen levels should rise. In
deeper waters, where researchers have measured decreased oxygen levels,
it might be a different story.
“The effects off the shelf might be longer,” Graham said. “If you
drive the oxygen down at 1200 meters (3600 feet), there is nothing to
replace that oxygen rapidly. You might see a low oxygen
signature for years, maybe even decades.”</blockquote>
Based on the description in the article I marked off the confirmed
dead zone on the map below in red.
The area in purple is where Monty Graham, a scientist from the
Dauphin Island Sea Lab who is tracking the dead zone, says the current
dead zone could possibly extend.
The lighter blue area is the intercontinental shelf where Graham says
the bottom layer of water was oxygen-depleted in the areas that have
been tested.

Oil And Gas Leaks From Cracks In Seabed
Confirmed – Videos Show Gulf Oil Spill Leaking From Seafloor









Posted
by Alexander Higgins -
June 13, 2010 at 3:47 am




There have been several reports
of oil and gas leaking on the cracks in the Gulf of Mexico seafloor
which may cause problems with BP capping the gushing oil well.
Although BP denies that there is oil or gas leaking from the cracks
in the sea floor many people watching the BP
Oil leak cam have witnessed
explosions and leaks from the seafloor.Update: NOAA
has confirmed over a dozen leaks coming from the seafloor near the
Deepwater Horizon but says they all appear to be natural.
I discussed this issue in detail when I
was recently interviewed by Fintan Dunne.
Well those reports from Senator Nelson and Matt Simmons among other
experts are now confirmed and if you didn’t already now it could be
really bad news.
As Keith Olbermann put it on his MSNBC show “Countdown” when
reporting about the possibility of the sea floor leaking “What’s Worse
Than Doomsay? … This is It”.
In any case, BP denying these reports is absolute proof that BP is
not being truthful about what is really going on the sea floor.
The Government really needs to step in at this point and allow
independent outsiders such as James Cameron assess the situation on the
Gulf of Mexico sea floor.
Update: Apparently there is some objections to the
Cameron comment above. Perhaps after viewing this document showing the recommendation of a Cameron convention
about the leak, attended by WHOI and others, it will be more
apparent that BP’s current containment plans actually follow those
recommendations and why I have made the suggestion.
This also indicates BP is putting on a pony show until the relief
wells can be completed.
However several experts including Matt Simmons and Dr. Stephen A.
Rinehart have came forward and said if the well casing is blown because
we do indeed have leaks coming from cracks in the sea bed it could cause
problems with the relief wells.
They warn that leaks in the seafloor from broken well casing could
allow cement from the relief well to escape from the damaged well casing
which would prevent the cement from curing.
According to Business Week and several other sources experts have
also warned that the relief wells could take until December to
complete and that doesn’t even factor blown well casing
into the time line.
The US government cannot allow BP to waste time leaving this well
leaking until December only to find out that the relief wells won’t work
because BP has been lying about the integrity of the well casing the
entire timeROV
films oil leak coming from rock cracks on seafloor.


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ALSO NOTE THE GLOBS AT 2:45
Watch the leak at about 0:26 in slow motion

The you tube video above seems to skip several frames giving the
appearance that the leak could be silt being kicked up by thruster kick.



Watching this video in slow motion you can clearly see that this is
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The Larger Release Of Oil At 0:26



Screen shots of oil leaking from a rock taken from video
above.








ROV investigates methane bubbles and globs of oil leaking
from sea floor 272 feet from the BOP Leak
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More narrated ROV footage filming oil leaking from the sea
floor, Note this videos starts off slow but watch the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZunCAXkDf-4&feature=player_embedded
If you have videos or images of possible leaks of oil or gas
from the sea floor please post a comment with a link to media so I can
add them to this post.
Updates:


Source: Looks like the ROV passed
through a curtain of oil bubbles….but it was not the riser…

Even members of “The Oil Drum” are now acknowledging the leaks of oil and gas coming from the sea floor.http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/06/13/bp-gulf-oil-spill-seafloor-oil-gas-leak-videos-photos/

problyontheredlist's
warning email to evacuate gulf NOW


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problyontheredlist's warning email to evacuate gulf NOW http://www.blogtalkradio.com/survival...
sunday 5pm central BlogTalkRadio "Survivalism on a Budget" w/guest
speaker The Plant Whisperer 6/20/2010

Attorney for 200 fishermen: BP “going
from no to hell no, they’re not going to pay the claims” (VIDEO)



By oilflorida, on July 13th, 2010



BP has yet to make it right, MSNBC, July 12, 2010:
Rush Transcript Excerpts (@ 2:45 in)
Dylan Ratigan, MSNBC:
<blockquote>Joining us from new orleans is Tracy Washington of the
Louisiana Justice Institution. … Are they paying claims?</blockquote>
Attorney Tracy Washington, President & CEO of the Louisiana
Justice Institute:
<blockquote>No, they’re not paying claims.
[When testifying to Congress, Darryl Willis] said BP would pay all
legitimate, reasonable, necessary and substantiated claims.
Anyone who goes in front of Congress with that many qualifiers, as an
attorney, we knew something was up with bp.
Now, Dylan, they’ve indicated, look, we’re going to put in more
stringent controls over the claims.
As I’ve indicates to clients and partners, they say attorney
Washington what’s going on.
What’s going on is they’re going from no to hell no.
They’re not going to pay the claims. video continues at
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/attorney-for-200-fishermen-bp-going-from-no-to-hell-no-theyre-not-going-to-pay-the-claims-video</blockquote>

MSNBC Anchor: “A volcano of oil that
will disrupt the natural flow of the earth for centuries to come”
(VIDEO)



http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/msnbc-anchor-a-volcano-of-oil-that-will-disrupt-the-natural-flow-of-the-earth-for-centuries-to-come-video

Government issuing new order suspending deepwater drilling

By the CNN Wire StaffcnnAuthor = "By the CNN Wire Staff";




A
controlled oil burn near the site of the Gulf of Mexico oil leak is
done on the surface of the water Sunday.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• NEW:
  Justice Department says new suspension supersedes voided original
  moratorium
  
• Interior Department says it is issuing a new order
  suspending some deepwater drilling
  
• Operations in Gulf of Mexico
  and Pacific region targeted
  
• Obama officials say moratorium is
  needed for safety reasons and investigation
  

Washington (CNN) -- The federal government announced Monday
it is issuing a new order to suspend deepwater drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico and off the coast of California until as late as November 30.
While describing the new step as a suspension, rather than a
moratorium like the original ban issued in May in the wake of the Gulf
oil disaster, the new order expands the drilling operations covered to
include those off California in what is called the Pacific region. The
original moratorium was limited to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of
Mexico. A federal judge threw out the initial six-month ban, and
last week, a federal appeals panel rejected the government's request to
overturn the lower court judge's decision. Obama administration
officials have repeatedly indicated their intention to reinstate the
moratorium since the initial ruling. "The new suspensions are
supported by an extensive record of existing and new information
indicating that allowing the deepwater drilling operations that will be
suspended would pose a threat of serious, irreparable, or immediate harm
or damage to the marine, coastal, and human environment," an Interior
Department statement said. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said
the revised suspension order focused on the specific technology involved
and type of drilling operation, rather than the depth of water in which
it occurs. The order also made clear that some operations included in
the previous moratorium could be permitted under the new suspension
order. "I remain open to modifying the new deepwater drilling
suspensions based on new information," Salazar said in a statement, "but
industry must raise the bar on its practices and answer fundamental
questions about deepwater safety, blowout prevention and containment,
and oil spill response."






















Video:
BP lowers cap over gushing well




































Video:
Can the cap stop the flow of oil?
















Last month, U.S. District Judge Martin
Feldman issued a preliminary injunction against the ban, which halted
all Gulf of Mexico drilling in more than 500 feet of water and prevented
new permits from being issued. The government appealed the ruling and
asked for an emergency stay of Feldman's decision while the case
continued. On Thursday, a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals rejected the government's request, saying it had "failed to
demonstrate a likelihood of irreparable injury if the stay is not
granted." The ruling also said there was no evidence that
deepwater drilling would resume immediately as the case goes on, but the
appellate judges said the government can apply for an emergency halt to
any drilling that it can show "has commenced or is about to commence."
Late Monday, the Justice Department said the original moratorium
issued in May was now moot because of the new suspension order. The
department will file motions to vacate the injunction against the
original moratorium and to have the case dismissed, according to a
statement from Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman. In
a background document accompanying Salazar's statement, the Interior
Department said the difference between the original moratorium and the
suspension order Monday involved "new evidence regarding safety
concerns, blowout containment shortcomings within the industry, and
spill response capabilities that are strained by the BP oil spill." "The
May 28 moratorium proscribed drilling based on specific water depths;
the new decision does not suspend activities based on water depth, but
on the basis of the drilling configurations and technologies," the
document said. It specified that drilling was suspended on any operation
involving a blowout preventer -- the fail-safe mechanism for stopping
an oil well explosion like the one that caused the Gulf disaster --
positioned underwater or on a floating rig in the Gulf of Mexico and the
Pacific region. According to the background document,
inspections of blowout preventers on new relief wells being drilled to
try to stop the broken well gushing oil into the Gulf found several
problems that required repairs. "Because these problems were
identified by the new testing procedures, they were repaired, and the
tests were successfully re-run," the document said, adding that the
Interior Department was "closely monitoring the drilling of the relief
wells to ensure safety." Salazar's suspension order does not
apply to "production activities" and drilling necessary to help stop the
Gulf oil leak, as well as some other activities, the document said.
It also doesn't apply to shallow water drilling that complies with
safety regulations, according to the document. However, members of the
Shallow Energy Security Coalition complained Monday that the government
has stopped issuing new permits for shallow water drilling.
"To date, and despite assurances from the White House
and the Interior Department, about one-third of the shallow water fleet
has been idled by the application of what can only be called a de facto
moratorium," said Jim Noe, senior vice president and general counsel of
Hercules Offshore. "Unless Interior changes course, and matches their
action with their rhetoric, another third of the fleet will be idled and
thousands more workers will be furloughed within the next few weeks."
CNN's David Mattingly, Alan Silverleib and Tom
Cohen contributed to this report.http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/07/12/gulf.drilling.moratorium/index.html?fbid=yRA0varxIdr

Bill's update:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3874-Read-this-It-s-possible-that-the-Macondo-Well-may-be-capped-this-week

Hi, Folks - this is a good news thread.

There's a huge amount of nonsense circulating about the GOM situation... some of it I contributed to myself earlier, before the game changed (see below). I now know quite a lot more.

Summary:

* The new 'cap' has been successfully secured to the open pipe.
* The new cap includes three hydraulic rams of the kind featured in the original Blowout Preventer (BOP) - which failed.
* The engineers are cautiously confident that this device (see photo below) will do the job that the original BOP failed to do:
* The best case scenario - and this is really possible - is that the 'tap' could be shut off within 48 hours.


Caveats and notes:

* They will go super-slowly and carefully, measuring the increasing pressure in the well as the outflow is gradually restricted.
* If the pressure suddenly FALLS, this means that there is a rupture somewhere in the steel well casing deep under the seabed. Then they will have to stop immediately and allow the oil to flow until John Wright's Bottom Kill operation (the Relief Wells) works. That would be in 2-4 weeks' time.
* At the moment the first Relief Well is literally feet away, but they have to get to the right spot within 3.5 inches. This needs time and great care, like performing keyhole surgery.
* The enormous toxicity problem remains. This is a genuine, serious, major health and pollution issue.
* Lindsey Williams' data on Jeff Rense, 1 July - from a new BP senior source who contacted him - was wrong. He seems to have been lied to. The pressure in the well is NOT 40,000 psi: it's 11,900 psi. This is a known parameter (and is within manageable limits).
* It's hard to understand why BP has NOT made a public statement about this. It's as if they WANTED the alternative media to go nuts... with incorrect information.
* The other falsehood Lindsey was told is that the 'granite encasing the reservoir' was cracked. I have asked several geologists about this, and they nearly fell off their chairs. There is NO granite anywhere near there, and no oil reservoir (biotic or abiotic) is EVER encased in granite. Either Lindsey mis-remembers what he was told - or he was being deliberately misled.
* There is a huge methane problem, but it is not combustible. There is no 'asphalt volcano', the sea floor will not collapse, and there will be no tsunami.
* There IS a serious toxicity problem.

Continued here: http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3874-Read-this-It-s-possible-that-the-Macondo-Well-may-be-capped-this-week

Nalco safety data sheet on the different types of Corexit

http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/posted/2931/Corexit_EC9527A_MSDS.539295.pdf

Link to Niosh / Osha's interim guidance for protecting Deepwater horizon response workers and volunteers : http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/oilspillresponse/protecting/#effects

Contents

General Recommendations
Health Effects from Crude Oil and Dispersant Exposure
Conducting Exposure Assessment
Pre-Placement Medical Evaluation
Medical Care and Symptoms, Near-Miss, Injury and Illness Reporting and Recording
Heat Stress Prevention
Fatigue Prevention
Traumatic Incident Stress Prevention
Use of Personal Protective Equipment
Guidance on Selection of Protective Clothing
Selection of Fabric
Selection of Seams
Selection of Design
Reuse of Personal Protective Equipment
Protective Clothing and Gloves
Respirators
Use of Respiratory Protection
Source Control Activities
Off-Shore Activities
Vessels Involved in Burning Crude Oil
Vessels Not Involved in Source Control or Burning
Shoreline Clean-up Activities
Decontamination Activities
PPE and Other Equipment
Cleaning Wildlife
Waste Stream Management Activities
Resources for Use of Respiratory Protection
Voluntary Use of Respirators
Appendix A: Human Health Effects Studies from Selected Oil Tanker Spill Disasters


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metaw3 wrote:Bill's update:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?3874-Read-this-It-s-possible-that-the-Macondo-Well-may-be-capped-this-week

Hi, Folks - this is a good news thread.

There's a huge amount of nonsense circulating about the GOM situation... some of it I contributed to myself earlier, before the game changed (see below). I now know quite a lot more.

Summary:

* The new 'cap' has been successfully secured to the open pipe.
* The new cap includes three hydraulic rams of the kind featured in the original Blowout Preventer (BOP) - which failed.
* The engineers are cautiously confident that this device (see photo below) will do the job that the original BOP failed to do:
* The best case scenario - and this is really possible - is that the 'tap' could be shut off within 48 hours.

Bill's assertion that "the engineers are cautiously confident that this device will do the job that the original BOP failed to do and that the best case scenario- and this really possible - is that the " tap" could be shut off within 48 hours " is'nt exactly what the following article says and could wrongly be understood as the end of the spill in the gulf.

Although this new cap is indeed ( if all works well ) progress towards containing the spill this will not be the end of that . The work on the relief wells will still go on .

BP Making Progress with New Cap over Leaking Gulf Well

12 July 2010

BP officials said Monday that they are close to installing a new cap on its leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico that has befouled beaches in four U.S. states and spread plumes of crude oil over a large are of the water. BP says full containment of the leak could come within days.

In a telephone briefing with reporters, BP's Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said a new, tighter-fitting cap has been lowered over the leaking well and will be attached by engineers operating underwater robots. But, he said, the success of the 68,000 kilogram cap will not be known until integrity tests are completed to ensure that it is capturing all of the gushing oil.

"The concern with the integrity test is actually below the sea bed and it is just verifying that there is not a problem with the casing, at some point, which could allow the flow to escape outside of the casing," said Doug Suttles.

Suttles added that the tests will determine whether there is strong pressure in the cap, which would mean that the flow of oil is contained. If there is low pressure, he said, that could indicate a leak somewhere else that is diverting oil from the main well head. He said the tests should take 48 hours to complete.

If all goes as planned, surface ships above the blown-out well will capture the oil as it flows up a pipe from the cap containing the leak. Among the vessels on hand is the Helix Producer, which can capture 3.8 million liters of oil a day.

But Doug Suttles says that a successful capping of the well would not be the end of the operation and that efforts to drill two relief wells will continue.

"Ultimately, to make sure this well can never flow to surface again and therefore the risk is removed, we actually need to kill it down at the reservoir and cement it up so that it can never flow again to the surface," he said. "So we still have to complete the relief well activity."

Suttles says that drilling on one of the relief wells might reach the target point of intersection with the main well within a few days. He said the relief wells could be finished and the leaking well sealed by the end of this month, although the official time frame for completion is mid-August.

more at the link : http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/US-Official-Says-Significant-Progress-Made-in-Stopping-Oil-Leak-98243204.html

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BP to Begin Testing New Oil Well Containment Cap

13 july 2010

http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/BP-Installs-New-Containment-Cap-on-Leaking-Gulf-Well-98306599.html

Oil company BP is set to begin pressure testing the new containment cap on its damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico to determine if it can effectively contain the massive leak.

National Incident Commander Thad Allen told reporters Tuesday that later Tuesday, BP technicians will cease oil collection activities and begin closing valves on the containment cap.

Allen says pressure readings will be taken as the valves are closed and choke lines leading to containment vessels are shut off. He says if the cap can maintain high pressure readings over an extended period - six to 48 hours - it could fully contain the leaking oil.

If pressure readings are too low, Allen says collection efforts would resume. He says the new cap, once fully operational, could allow for the collection of up to 80,000 barrels of oil per day.

Allen says the pressure tests will also allow technicians to get the best estimate of the amount of oil leaking from the well. Previous government estimates have had as much as 60,000 barrels a day flowing from the well.

He said low pressure readings could also indicate oil is leaking elsewhere.

After a three-day operation, the new cap was installed Monday on the damaged wellhead about 1.6 kilometers below the Gulf's surface.

Even if the cap works as hoped, it is only meant to be a temporary fix. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles says the company will continue to drill two relief wells that will allow the ruptured well to be permanently plugged with mud and cement.

Allen says the first relief well is very close to completion, but careful measurements are needed and other crucial procedures are expected to take as long as another month.


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