Lower Marine Riser News Today

The new rules require rig owners to report the time needed to evacuate ahead of a storm, known as the “T-Time.”

The new rules require rig owners to report the time needed to evacuate ahead of a storm, known as the “T-Time.”

>> the skies have been active all day. many of the companies out there choosing to wait until the last minute. ships on the move as well and they are ordered out of the scene around the ruptured oil well, ordered out last night. the point man for the government thad allen says getting it out of harms way is a slow process. last night, development driller two and three were directed to detach from the drill sites. they are disconnecting from the lower marine riser package and they are in the proc...

All day. many of the companies out there choosing to wait until the last minute. ships on the move as well and they are ordered out of the scene around the ruptured oil well, ordered out last night. the point man for the government thad allen says getting it out of harms way is a slow process. last night, development driller two and three were directed to detach from the drill sites. they are disconnecting from the lower marine riser package and they are in the process right now of pulling the r...

The capping stack installation and be able to test for pressure in the integrity of the well bore. these kind of overlap. i dont want to lose track of the fact that were following a very robust containment strategy actually started in early june where we directed bp to come up with alternatives to increase redundancy and capacity related to the new flow rate numbers. so with that said, whats going to happen is we will be initiating the tests later on this evening and im going to stun you with my...

Theyre being able to exercise the valves over the next 6 to 48 hours. if this doesnt work, if, in other words, the pressure builds up to the point where they cannot actually shut it off, whats the back-up? just put a hose on the top of this thing, then suck the oil off through the top? >> actually, they already have three hoses, i believe, connected. i know they have two connected already to the lower marine riser package. theyll have a third hose attached to this stack itself. then they can als...

Transition tool on top of the lower marine riser package and allow us to fit a containment cap potentially later on today. ive asked bp for some plans on how to contest test that containment cap and we have those in hand. if all goes well some time this afternoon the containment cap could go on. we want to slowly close the vafs valves and shut the oil in and see if it can main maintain the pressure. is there a potential to shut in the well or cap it, if you will. or if there is a problem with pr...

Strike. weve seen since last night a whole lot of active weather in this area. there were no injuries, all procedures were followed. this is according to bp. and as a precaution, the lower marine riser package, the lmrp, containment operation was shut down. all safety shutdown systems operated as designed. now, from what we understand, this has not started up yet again. theyre still conducting final safety and operational insurances inspections and bp is telling us they expect the collection of ...

Significantly lower and that might afford them an opportunity to do that. the other option would be to separate the lower marine riser pipe from the stack and actually just replace it with that second blowout preventer that i talked about earlier. this sounds confusing and highly technical, but basically there are three things happening. one is to clog the blowout preventer to stop the leak. the second is to sever the pipe and to put a valve in to replace it or put a second one on. those can be ...

Concerns over tropical storm bonnie threatening to reopen the gusher in the gulf. severe weather warnings now that are stretch from florida to louisiana, and the nation gnat incident commander thad allen ordering all ships to evacuate the spill site and take cover. steve harrigan live in grand isle, louisiana. what exactly are they saying about the containment cap that has been placed offer the well and whether it will hold and how the weather is affecting? >> reporter: megyn actually over my sh...