BP's Deepwater Oil Spill - Rig Workers had Chance to Prevent Explosion? - and Open Thread
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—Thomas Edison, in conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, March 1931
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The kaput BOP from the DWH has now (15:20 CDT) arrived at the NASA Michoud Facility in New Orleans.
At the seaward end of the South West Pass of the Mississippi the BOP ram-stack and the LMRP stack were lifted by the Q-4000's 360 ton crane onto a barge. With the tug Emily C. Cheramie pulling and the tug Baltic Dawn pushing it went up the Mississipi, through a lock and canals to the NASA facility. The U.S. Coast Guard ship USCG Razorbill accompanied the transport.
The brother of #theoildrum chat participent "smokebreak" took a few pictures when the ships entered the New Orleans area.
(click pic to enlarge)
The BOP ram-stack (the originally lower part) is to the left with red lifting slings, the LMRP part with flex joint and transition spool still attached is on the right.
Moon,
Excellent pics!! Thank smokebreak's brother for us.
Michoud, La.--AP--Breaking news--FailBOP was damaged in an assassination attempt at dockside by an unmarked ROV wielding an industrial rivet gun. A NASA crane responded by lifting the ROV and dashing it fatally to the ground. No corporation has claimed responsibility. A BP spokesman said Anadarko, Transocean, and the US government all stood to benefit from the attack.
I think that is the funniest thing I have read on the TOD since the start of this mess.
ROFL!
However, others report that a second ROV, indication of a massive conspiracy, also attacked from a Grassy Knoll at the Michoud facility. Eye witnesses suggest that FailBOP went "back, and to the left... back, and to the left... back, and to the left." Such reports were quickly dismissed by a currently-evolving Single ROV Theory.
Skeptics, however, remain dubious that such an attack could be the work of just one ROV, "One pristine ROV? That dog don't hunt."
Oliver Stone has been added to the list of people who stood to benefit from the attack.
Gobbet - THAT is LOL funny!! I'm saving it. Nice "comic relief".
Moon, Thank you SO MUCH for posting these and please send thanks to your fellows over at #theoildrum, as well. Hope y'all don't mind I shared them with my kids and a friend in Chatt., who is an Exxon retiree. (gave credit to you and them, of course)
I think that if I lived down there I would have tried to be out there myself to see the "Entry of the BOP into NOLA"--a Wagnerian moment, to be sure. My brain, which plays background music for almost everything, is playing "Entry of the Gods into Valhalla." Lizzy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b80Jw8MuZxo
Most folks never hear (or realize they are hearing) the French horns in this thing. The horns are primarily responsible for the increasing "frenzy" (music teachers call it tension, but it's frenzy) as it progresses. It's is probably the hardest thing I ever played (on my horn). It's AWESOME! And seriously, as soon as I saw the pic in Moon's post, I thought "Entry of the BOP into NOLA," and my brain launched the appropriate accompaniment.
Whadda brain!
And NO, I've not clinked all evening! HOWEVER, think I'll do it now. (It takes SO little to make me happy!)
To the Wagnerian Moment!
CLINK!
No one with such a brain should clink alone!
CLINK!
Coming in a little late, but I'll clink to any old Wagnerian Moment. Ain't no better moments, say I. Awesome that you got to play this one.
CLINK!
Dead man walking soundtrack The Face of Love
With soundtrack by RockyP: The story of the BOP pics