Global oil giant BP on Monday has provided an update on developments in the response to the MC252 oil well incident in the Gulf of Mexico.
Subsea Source Control and Containment Subsea efforts continue to focus on two fronts: first, reducing the flow of oil spilled by physical containment and second, further work on stopping the flow using a 'top kill' option.
The containment dome that was deployed last week has been parked away from the spill area on the sea bed. Efforts to place it over the main leak point were suspended at the weekend as a build up of hydrates prevented a successful placement of the dome over the spill area.
A second, smaller containment dome is being readied to lower over the main leak point. The small dome will be connected by drill pipe and riser lines to a drill ship on the surface to collect and treat oil. It is designed to mitigate the formation of large hydrate volumes. This operation has never been done before in 5,000 feet of water.
In addition, further work on the blow out preventer has positioned us to attempt a 'top kill' option aimed at stopping the flow of oil from the well. This option will be pursued in parallel with the smaller containment dome over the next two weeks.
Since the Deepwater Horizon explosion the night of April 20, federal US authorities, both military and civilian, have been working onsite and around the clock to respond to and mitigate the impact of the resulting BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
In the meantime, US President Obama met with a number of Cabinet members and senior staff in the White House Situation Room to review BP’s efforts to stop the oil leak as well as to decide on next steps to ensure all is being done to contain the spread, mitigate the environmental impact.
The President asked Secretary Chu to lead a team of top administration officials and government scientists to Houston this week for an extensive dialogue with BP officials to continue to aggressively pursue potential solutions.
In addition, to deal more generally with the harms created by oil spills, the President has requested that legislation be sent to Congress to toughen and update the law surrounding caps on damages.
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The "ex-spurts" do not want to solve this problem and they do not know how to. They should be jailed. It is as easy as can be get a length of copper pipe with an outside diameter half an inch smaller than the inside diameter of the oil pipe. Place an explosive in the middle of the length of this pipe an fix it there. Provide a timer of say two hours, or whatever is required. Close securely one end and fill this pipe with water and close the other securely. Insert this pipe or force it into oil pipe and the rest is easy. If required amount of explosive is provided one can stay along this pipe during explosion simply because this pipe will expand but not explopde thus close the oil pipe for good. Later if the same pipe is to be brought into production copper pipe can be drilled out. Best wishes USA you need rookies such as me to solve a lot of your problems. Sincerely Rob
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