{"id":734057,"date":"2010-05-26T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T18:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10007081"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:13:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:13:24","slug":"bp-starts-operation-top-kill-watch-it-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/734057","title":{"rendered":"BP Starts Operation &#8220;Top Kill,&#8221; Watch It Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/05\/valves-thumb-300x225-40699.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>BP has started operation &#8220;Top Kill,&#8221; and we&#8217;ve embedded here the live videostream of  their latest attempt to plug the well. The maneuver involves pumping heavy drilling mud and cement into the well. While routine on surface wells, it&#8217;s never been attempted at 5,000 ft underwater. And if it goes south and the blowout preventer cracks under the pressure, it could make matters worse. Bust out the popcorn! I just saw a robot arm!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"586\" id=\"utv967478\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoplay=false&amp;brand=embed&amp;cid=4284431&#038;locale=en_US\"\/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\"\/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.ustream.tv\/flash\/mediastream\/4284431\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: The camera has changed. Now we are looking at valves instead of the plume.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE 2: Now we are floating around the blowout preventer.<br \/>\nUPDATE 3: Now we&#8217;re back to the valves.<br \/>\nUPDATE 4: Lots of floating and panning now.<br \/>\nUPDATE 5: I just saw a robot arm! Science is happening!<br \/>\nUPDATE 6: You know, by not showing the plume we don&#8217;t know what effect, if any, the operation is having on the leak rate.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"plumemonitoring.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/plumemonitoring.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"rig.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/rig.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/>Here is an animation of how Operation Top Kill is supposed to work:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"505\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v4YG7J-Ws6k&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bp.com\/liveassets\/bp_internet\/globalbp\/globalbp_uk_english\/homepage\/STAGING\/local_assets\/bp_homepage\/html\/rov_stream.html#\" >Live video link from the ROV monitoring the damaged riser<\/a> [BP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BP has started operation &#8220;Top Kill,&#8221; and we&#8217;ve embedded here the live videostream of their latest attempt to plug the well. The maneuver involves pumping heavy drilling mud and cement into the well. While routine on surface wells, it&#8217;s never been attempted at 5,000 ft underwater. And if it goes south and the blowout preventer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3568,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-734057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34XD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}