Diamond Wire Saw Cutting BP Gulf Oil Spill BOP. The Clean cut of the BOP is currently underway so the LMRP siphon cap can be installed. Follow live blogging of this event blog.alexanderhiggins.com Watch it live here: blog.alexanderhiggins.com
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The Giant Shear Saw CRAW Cuts Gulf Oil Spill Flange BOP . BP will now move in the containment cap to completed the LMRP #2 option to try to contain the oil.blog.alexanderhiggins.com Watch it live here: blog.alexanderhiggins.com
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@puppetjaw One would have to think kinked would have been a whole hell of a lot better than shearing the entire pipe off?!
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The pipe was badly kinked and split immediately above the BOP
I am dumbfounded by the ignorance of whoever allowed this. Why did you cut it off so close to the flange? You should have left at least 5 feet above the flange to allow other methods of connections to be used. A simple mechanical type coupling / mega lug would have solved this. Pure ignorance. Now you !@*$)# it up so bad you’ll never get anything on it and you sure as @#$! can’t cut it off and try again! Have you ever seen what a shear does to a piece of pipe-not even close to a clean cut.
A 40 minute recording by the ROV labeled MAXX -seen at 1:04 above- is at my vimeo youtubesneak channel, numbered 12293625, or search for:
View of ROV holding the shear when it cut the riser off the BOP top 2010-06-03 around 14:00 UTC at GOM oil well
The ROV displayed the local time from 08:31 to 09:13 and the cut appears to be complete between 09:06 and 09:09
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