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Offline The Village Idiot

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BP: Insertion tube is siphoning oil from leak at this time.
« on: May 16, 2010, 02:40:46 PM »
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37177037/ns/gulf_oil_spill/



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HOUSTON - Reporting its first success in containing the massive Gulf oil leak nearly a month after it started, BP on Sunday said oil and natural gas were flowing via a mile-long pipe to a ship at the surface.

"So far it's working extremely well," BP Senior Executive Vice President Kent Wells said of the strategy of inserting a 4-inch tube into the 21-inch riser, a pipe in the seafloor from where the largest leak is spewing.

"We're very slowly increasing the rate" to get more oil and natural gas up, he told reporters. "We will just learn as we go with this approach." Siphoning oil from a mile down had never before been successful.



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Re: BP: Insertion tube is siphoning oil from leak at this time.
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 03:37:36 PM »
"very slow" is right.  We expect the gulf stream to be taking the oil to our beaches in the near future.  So much for a fun filled Memorial Day on the boat.
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Re: BP: Insertion tube is siphoning oil from leak at this time.
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 03:41:08 PM »
As another cave member said "dilution is the solution to pollution" lol.

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Re: BP: Insertion tube is siphoning oil from leak at this time.
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2010, 03:52:12 PM »
Quote from: FGL on May 16, 2010, 03:41:08 PM
As another cave member said "dilution is the solution to pollution" lol.



That was me.  Yup--I said that.  Still mean it, too. 

Any amount that can be siphoned off to be refined later is good. 
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