{"id":581180,"date":"2010-05-27T09:31:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photo-comparison-shows-bp-has-reduced-well-pressure-2010-5"},"modified":"2010-05-27T09:31:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T13:31:08","slug":"photo-comparison-shows-bp-has-reduced-well-pressure-bp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/581180","title":{"rendered":"Photo Comparison Shows BP HAS Reduced Well Pressure (BP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>I am putting up these two pictures to show why I believe that the  injection pressure of mud into the well has dropped, indicating that BP  have filled the well, and are now holding pressure to see if there are  any problems.  I would assume, if none develop, that they will inject  cement to seal the top of the well, sometime today.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bfe72f67f8b9a92132f0100\/livecam.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"livecam\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bfe73207f8b9a90136e0100\/livecam.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"livecam\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Notice how the flow was longer and straighter in the first image,  indicating that it was at higher pressure (velocity) and that now it  blows out at much closer distance, meaning it doesn&#8217;t have the same  pressure (velocity). There is a small caveat, and that is that I am  assuming that there hasn&#8217;t been any significant erosion of the surface  of the cracks between the two shots, and that may be a possible change,  though not enough to cause the reduced throw distance of the central  jet.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Here is a picture showing the ROV and the leaks &#8211; note the  pipe on top of the riser that is also flowing mud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bfe734e7f8b9aa213e20000\/livecam.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"livecam\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoildrum.com\/node\/6515\"><em>This is a guest post by Heading Out of The Oil Drum &#8211;&gt;<\/em><\/a> <em>(This work is licensed under a <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/us\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/photo-comparison-shows-bp-has-reduced-well-pressure-2010-5#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/En_w3yXWL8s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am putting up these two pictures to show why I believe that the injection pressure of mud into the well has dropped, indicating that BP have filled the well, and are now holding pressure to see if there are any problems. I would assume, if none develop, that they will inject cement to seal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}