In this video I compare a previous shot of the BOP riser pipe flange connection and explain why top cap is still gushing. In preparation of cutting the riser pipe they cut and removed all of the smaller pipe the when along beside the riser pipe. These pipe go right through the flange the joins the LMRP (lower marine rise pack) to riser pipe that when up to the rig before it exploded. Now that they have sheared the riser pipe (big one in the center of all these pipe) they have lower a cap over top. The oil gushing from below the cap is flowing out around the cap through the four holes they left in the flange when they cut the smaller pipes away. Oil is coming up through the sheared riser pipe, under the cap and out through the short lengths of smaller pipe they left at the LMRP flange. The flange is the two disc like metal parts that allow them to connect the various units together and would have absolutely no oil leaking out. BP should be making a mating flange with the holes where the small pipe were not cut out and weld to a riser pipe and use a hydraulic coupler like they did on Kill inlet to make connection. It would be better than what they have now. Very little oil should leak out after the close the vents on the top of the top cap dome. In this clip you can see the hydraulic coupling they made to connect the BOP KILL line from the manifold on the seabed to the blowout preventer KILL inlet flange. www.youtube.com
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