Oil spill webcam, 5000 ft bellow the sea

[stealth]

BP tech briefing from the aptly named Kent Wells:
http://bp.concerts.com/gom/kentwellstechupdatelong053110.htm

more video inc streams from all the ROVs on the seabed:
http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9033572&contentId=7061710

That video gave me a big picture of what is going on and what's going on to fix it. 

[allaire]

On the second ROV feed link Skandi ROV 1 and 2 and Enterprise ROV 2 look like they are at the well head.

[FiLtH]

  Nuke it from orbit...its the only way to know for sure.

[Babalonian]

Murder charges . The 11 are forgotton so easily.

QFTMFT!

This is BPs fault forever in my book for one reason and only one unfortunate reason.  Ignorant manslaughter.

[Denholm]

Could some of you more educated in oil-rig ownership explain something to me? BP was leasing the oil-rig from Transocean... Does that mean BP is responsible for maintenance and inspection of the rig? If not, Transocean is the company which should be facing manslaughter charges, not BP.

[RTHolmes]

depends who, if anyone, has been negligent. which depends on the contractual arrangements and the real cause of the blow out.

but lets not let common sense get in the way of a good lynching eh?

[RTHolmes]

update:

LMRP cap now fixed in place and oil/gas being pumped to the surface. they will spend the next 2 days optimising but its already capturing 20% of the leak

[AKH]

Murder charges . The 11 are forgotton so easily.

Just as the British Government prosecuted Occidental for killing 167 men on Piper Alpha?

[RTHolmes]

err no they didnt, Occidental were found to be negligent by the public enquiry but no charges were ever brought.

[AKH]

Exactly 

[RTHolmes]

gotcha


update: still optimising capture and now pumping 10k barrels/day - 50-80% of the flow, and flaring 22m cft of gas a day.

edit: video of the LMRP cap being moved into place:
http://bp.concerts.com/gom/successful_install_lmrp_cap_060510.htm

[Nashwan]

BP was leasing the oil-rig from Transocean... Does that mean BP is responsible for maintenance and inspection of the rig? If not, Transocean is the company which should be facing manslaughter charges, not BP.

The contract between BP and Transocean said the senior Transocean representative was in charge.

Transocean not only supplied and operated the rig, they supplied and operated the blowout preventer that failed. Transocean had to stop work on a well they were drilling off India last year after the blowout preventer failed in a similar manner. The only thing that stopped that being a similar disaster was that they hadn't struck oil when the failure occurred.

Transocean have gone to court to limit their liability to $27 million. The press have given them a very easy ride.

[REVRAND]

This is a C.R.D. situation..........(Chit Rolls Downhill)....Trans Oceans rig........contracted by BP, with many other companies involved. Some with a minimum roll, others with greater liability. Bp is going to blame it on Trans Ocean, Trans Ocean will blame Halliburton, and the circle of luv will continue. And ultimately its going to come down to who was in charge of changing out the Duracells.......... 


And your right Lyric........how soon do we forget that 11 people died........

[RTHolmes]

Transocean have gone to court to limit their liability to $27 million.

now that is just laughable. even our own liability policy for tradesmen (for eg. a roofer, not a multinational public company) has a lower limits of £10m ($15m) each for EL and PL.

what I'd like to know is how any court can determine liability without knowing all of the facts. without the results of an inquiry its just guesswork. I can understand why the public hold BP responsible - Halliburton is a US company so it cant be their fault, and no one has heard of Transocean, which just leaves BP holding the can. I'd expect more from the courts tho.

[Nashwan]

Transocean are a US company too, although they moved their headquarters to Switzerland for tax purposes a year or 2 ago.

There is an old US law covering shipping liability dating from 1851 that limits payouts to $27 million, and that's what Transocean are trying to hide behind.

What's worse is Transocean have already received a $400 million payout from their own insurance for the loss of their rig.