Daily Kos Oilpocolypse ROV #28: Hopefully Cutting the Riser

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Tuesday June 01, 2010 · 12:55 AM PDT

2010/06/01 · 00:55

Check out my Image diary for images of the work going on, the commentary may help you understand what is happening.

It bears repeating - Please DO NOT Rec this diary, rather rec the Overnight Mothership instead.

Please be kind to kossacks with bandwidth issues. Please do not post images or videos. Again, many thanks for this.

We continue to bear witness to the ongoing fallout of unfettered corporate greed and malfeasance. We have a lot going on with the LRMP tonight, and hopefully we will have an expert or two drop in to give us some insight.

For a description of the mothership/ROV liveblogging process, check out this thread.

[Update]: BP put up a video explaining the LMRP procedure and the future plans.

BP has a good diagram of the cutting process.

It bears repeating - Please DO NOT Rec this diary, Rec the Mothership here.

I am one to look at the situation as is, not as it could be. I go by the motto, I'll worry about today, today. I truly believe that BP's crew, President Obama, Secretary Chu, Admiral Allen, and the others working on this are doing their best with the best people they can find helping them. BP's ownership and management are doing their best to limit the damages this is doing to their company and profits and that includes keeping as much oil as possible out of Gulf and off the coast.

Here is a totorial on the sources of pressure on the well

Here is an excellent image of what is supposed to exist under the wellhead. Take the comments from Halliburton with a grain of salt since this is part of their "blame those two" PR campaign.

The video feeds we are watching:

BP Video Feed
CNN Video Streams - Note: multi-view is sometimes unavailable.
PBS
BP videos - This link takes you to BP's home page, which contains a section called "Latest Video Updates from BP".
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola - Appears WKRG only has a still shot right now.
ABC 7 Chicago Live Video - Multiple ROV Camera Views (h/t to temptxan for the great find)

Courtesy of whitis here are two additional video links:
Primary feed.
Secondary feed.

Courtesy of profgoose here is a list of links from The Oil Drum links on newer developments, etc
Maritime ship tracking -- courtesy of johnsonwax.
Whitis' Quantitative Data Diary

Again, to keep bandwidth down please do not post images or videos.

Previous children diaries:

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