OT: Live Oil Leak Video Stream

What diameter do you think that pipe in the foreground is?

I couldn't get the video to work (?) Hey, I wonder... when do you think everyone will stop call this a "leak" or a "spill" and start calling it a "gusher"?

From the news its 21" in Diameter.

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The news/talk I've been listening to has been calling it a "gusher" for some time.

Better quality here...

and the Ustream link

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Did you get on the site and make a suggestion to fix the problem? They have a form.

How would you fix it?

The junk shot is a viable solution since the BOP is faulty. They're dealing with high pressures and it?s a mile down. Even if they cement the BOP closed, they still need a relief well to take the pressure off of the faulty BOP.

The real fix is a relief well, and they need to drill into the well casing (which they are giving themselves 3 weeks to do ). That?s if they hit the well on the first shot.

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I just watch some type of an eel ? swim around a little bit and then right into the plume. Mike

It looks to me like the pipe coming in from the right upper 1/3 of picture is spraying in the chemical used to break up the oil. I saw it move away from the plume just a bit , the pipe turns down and the white you see in the picture is something being sprayed from the pipe. Oh, it just moved a lot the white is now on the left. Mike

I've seen that eel last night, maybe he wants his 15min of fame. or maybe we are seeing a video loop.

The white is gas hydrates(natural gas). I think this is the riser that the sucker is attached to, to capture the oil/gas and pump it up into a waiting barge.

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I guess they were right then, "drill baby drill". The relief well, that is.

It's my understanding that they don't have to hit the casing, just get near it in the oil chamber. The idea isn't shut off the gusher by diverting it, rather to reduce the pressure so it can be capped.

I actually hope your right, But, Thats not the way I saw it, the pipe on the right moved away from the plume and it looked like it had 8 or 10 holes blowing a white cloud horizontal into the oil plume. It moved back into the the plume, then it went to far and the white was on the opposite side of the plume. huh, just watched another eel swim by. Mike

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The goal is to hit the casing part way down. They aren't going to just try to hit the far end. The drill hole is very long so there is lots of distance along it to hit it. They need to make sure that they don't hit it too near the surface so the cartoon picture isn't what will really happen. The new drill will be going mostly down at the point where it meets the existing one.

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I think that works well if you get a clean hit. I'll bet on making the problem over an order of magnitude worse if (when) they get a grazing hit. Even with a sea floor pressure of on the close order of 180 atmospheres (2500 psi) the video shows an overpressure of the oil of at least 1000 psi. Nobody's joke (except at the bottom of gas giant atmospheres e.g. Saturn, and maybe not even there)