BP's 48-hour window for pressure testing the recently recapped Gulf well passed Saturday with no reports so far of leaking oil.
Despite no evidence that a giant sealing cap had caused further damage, the company said that pressure tests could continue beyond the 48 hours, which ended at 3:25 p.m. ET.
It was unclear Saturday afternoon when officials might allow oil to again flow to vessels.
Pressure was still rising Saturday though it had slowed considerably as expected, BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said earlier in the day.
"The longer the test goes the more confidence we have in it," he told reporters in a conference call Saturday. "There's no evidence we don't have integrity."
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SCOOP: The tool able to stop the oil spill in the early days of May!!! http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-472981
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For the record I'm not defending BP. I just think BreakingNews is an idiot. So does everyone else.
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now, you should be happy, "qwerasdf-BP-guy"... with the wellhead closed, your BP shares and stock options should soon go up again...
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The Cameron Team of experts determined the outflow from the Louisiana BP blown Oil well was 13,000 PSI. After the new cap stack was placed on top of the damaged original BOP stack, it appeared the outflow was lessened and BP began reporting the outflow was at 8,000 PSI. And as the new cap valves were closed down the pressure has been resting at around 6,000 PSI indicating Oil and Gas is gushing into fractures in the drill pipe deep under the sea floor to the tune of 2,000 PSI.
These fractures could erupt to the surface of the deep Ocean sea-floor a mile or more away from the original drill site, releasing Oil and Gas once again into the Gulf of Mexico. With BP and the US Coast Guard preventing any private ships not connected to BP from entering that area, it seems the public must once again rely on whatever BP is telling Thad Allen in regards to remote video and sonar readings in the miles surrounding the original drill site looking for new gushers.
Going from 8,000 PSI to 6,000 PSI overnight indicates there is a 2,000 PSI fracture and leak somewhere in the original drill casing or drill pipe under the sea-floor.
Engineers monitoring the capped Louisiana BP well site which has gushed some 180 Million gallons of toxic, poisonous and carcinogenic heavy crude Oil into the Gulf of Mexico, today stated they are monitoring seepage from the sea-floor that is likely coming from the Macondo Oil reservoir which the Louisiana BP blown Oil well is connected to.
The Cameron team of experts originally determined the outflow pressure was 12,000 PSI. Almost immediately after the new cap was placed on it, the outflow was down to 8,000 PSI. I could immediately see the new containment cap was discharging less out the top of the stack than was exiting from the blown BOP riser originally.
What that should have signaled to anyone that was actually looking, was that 4,000 PSI of outflow was going somewhere else. Being thru a ruptured Oil drill pipe and casing into a geologic fault that could possibly lead to the surface of the sea floor resulting in venting.
AND upon closing ALL the valves on the new containment cap, the pressure went down to 6,000 PSI. Exactly 1/2 what the original Cameron team of experts had determined for the out pressure from this well site. That directly translates to 1/2 of 2.2 Million Gallons per day gushing into the Gulf into 1.1 Million Gallons per day going somewhere and likely ending up in the Gulf of Mexico after venting thru the deep Ocean sea-floor.
The mechanics of deriving the out pressure is very straight forward math plugged into the weight of the standardized mud mixture that BP had attempted during the 'top kill' operation to balance the opposing pressure. 14.3 lbs per foot of drill pipe filled with that specific drill mud material over the depth it takes to neutralize the opposing pressure to equal the actual out pressure from this specific well.
In short BP and Thad Allen knew damn well what the real out pressure was on this Oil well way back when the 'top kill' operation took place. It certainly wasn't 6-8,000 PSI meaning up to half of that gushing crude Oil is now spewing thru a rupture in the Ocean sea-floor drill casing and into undersea geological fault lines which likely leads up thru the sea-floor in venting
We can stop the spill using Rush Limbaugh, Bill Orielly, Glen Beck, The Tea Party, their kkk, and nazi followers. That will plug that leak, real good.