SMALL LEAK REVEALED - BP Pipeline Leak - new underwater footage of the leak in the oil pipe

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Run time: 05:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDhePF1QmaA   Posted on YouTube: May 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: EnergyBoom1 Views on YouTube: 2939   Posted on DU: May 19, 2010 By DU Member: time_has_come Views on DU: 1423

 
The "smaller" leak is revealed at the 2:20 mark. Pretty small leak, hey?

[Bryn]

1. Small? It looks like still a huge gushing thing!

:(

[time_has_come]

2. That might ALL be the "smaller"leak. The section of pipe doesn't lookfamiliar...n/t

[sce56]

3. Look at the other video from this series

[TheEuclideanOne]

4. Is it just me?

I am sure that there are a bunch of people saying..... Why don't you do this or that? They mentioned putting a 300 foot cement pole into the pipe when they close off the well. Why don't they just do that now? You would think that the could just put a bigger pipe around the oil well and siphon it up to the surface. Seriously.... How hard is it to capture a liquid that is coming out of a pipe? My water pipe in the back of my house was leaking and I put a cap on it. No more leak. Can't they just do the equivalent? Do you think they are more focused on capturing the oil than solving the problem?

[sce56]

5. That is like being ready to deal with contingencies you know having a backup plan!

That is fully manned and equipped!

Like why do they not have oil skimmers to scoop up the spill and separate the water from the oil? We have the technology the oil companies just don't care to spend the money to be ready for such problems!

[thereismore]

6. There are now 2 leaks coming from a riser that is crumpled on the seafloor. There is no neat

pipe end sticking upward. The drill pipe is actually much thicker than the riser. We are lucky the riser did not get blown off.

[Naked_Ape]

7. It is a difficult problem

Yes, they will try to cap the well, but the pipe is bent and broken so it can't be used to insert much of anything. They will try the "junk shot" and it might just work. Worth a try. Any attempt to remove and replace the bent pipe we see in this video will only let even more oil out. Plugging this gusher from the top would be like trying to put a cork in a two foot wide firehose, it would require big equipment that just doesn't exist.

They tried putting a "bigger pipe" over the whole thing. The white stuff you see coming out of the well is methane. As it expands it cools and freezes the seawater to slush. It plugged up the pipe. That's why they are trying the much smaller pipe now.

The truth is that there is little to no hope of significantly reducing output of the well until the relief well now being drilled can be connected and can insert a new plug. That will probably happen in August. The genie is out of the bottle and there is really very little else that can be done by anyone to make it better. That is the hazard of deep sea drilling. There is no cavalry to call to your rescue. The best technology for working deep water is the stuff that drills these wells. If that fails there is no one else to call.

My biggest concern is that there is too little oil on the beaches, too little on the surface of the water. Crude oil contains lots of toxic chemicals which, in a typical spill, evaporate into the atmosphere and are dispersed. The gooy mess kills birds , stinks, and is ugly, but nature can recover. Since much of the oil in this spill seems to be spreading beneath the surface, benzene and other nasties are still in the water. Benzene, in very modest concentrations, is quite toxic to humans. What is its effect on sea life? I can't imagine "flourish" is in the answer to that question. Circulation in the gulf is weak. We will pay the price for generations to come.

[time_has_come]

8. No, i think they genuinely want to stop the oil leak. Capturing it (to sell) is not their concern...

...now. BP is concerned with their public image. That's why they are withholding info and focusing on every positive they can drum up.

They want this problem to go away, and stopping a leak from multiple jagged edges a mile deep is just hard to do. That's why there are safeguards and regular pressure tests, none of which were working properly at the time of the disaster. Have you watched the 60 minutes thingy yet? It's on youtube...search "60 minutes blowout oil" or some derivative of that.

[Devil_Fish]

10. Bull Shit. They want to sell it. Thats why they don't want any one to go out to the oiled beach,

that's BP Oil, and you better stay away from it.

[time_has_come]

11. Illogical. They want that leak stopped as much as anyone.

Capturing 1000 or 2000 barrels or two/three times that per day is worth nothing to them compared to the cost of the negative PR and public hatred they're fostering each day this leak continues.

PR and branding is invaluable to a company. The idea that they'd be more interested in selling a few thousand barrels of captured oil than stopping the leak is ludicrous.

[Devil_Fish]

9. Thats the same leak from two diffrent cameras.

And this is really bad. I'm not a scientist, but I know enough to know that even if they cap the other leak that they showed us origionally, it won't matter because it will just flow out of this leak faster. This leak is obviously at the top of the BOP. The other leak was the end of the pipe.

With just the origional footage scientist were able to estimate that the leak (from the end of the pipe) was 70,000 barrels a day. I dread to think what ths one will be estimated at.

I fear we have finally done it. The oil leak will destroy all life on planet Earth except the roaches.

[Devil_Fish]

12. kick N/T