Deepwater Oil Spill - BOP on board

First it was hoisted to the surface Note the actual size of the Deepwater Horizon Blowout Preventer as it is held just above the support fra...

Deepwater Oil Spill - changeover completed.

Well, in one day the progress on the Deepwater Horizon moved significantly further towards the end. First the capping stack was removed fro...

Deepwater Oil Spill - stack off, but another incident

Once again I am indebted to MoonofA , who is giving a more detailed hour by hour report, of some of the incidents that I miss. Fairly rapid...

Deepwater Oil Spill - preparing to move

The annotations to the ROV feeds from BP are becoming a little more descriptive, particularly with those related to the Q4000, which will b...

Deepwater Oil Spill - another weather pause

The weather is currently holding up the proceedings at the Deepwater Horizon well site. The seas are some six to eight feet, which is appar...

Deepwater Oil Spill - awaiting the integrity test

Ah! The joys of trying to work out what is happening at the seabed around the leaking well in the Gulf, and relying on the images from the R...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the 3-ram stack

After a relatively long and technically difficult process BP has managed to locate and install the three-ram Lower Stack on the flowing well...

Deepwater Oil Spill - inserting the transition spool

At about 1 pm (Eastern) I checked on the feeds, and it appears, using the camera on the BOA ROV 1, that the transition spool has been lowere...

Deepwater Oil Spill - starting to change the cap

This weekend BP are carrying out two steps that will move the process of reducing the oil flow, and killing the well further forward. In fa...

Deepwater Oil Spill - the end game plan

At roughly 9 pm on Friday evening, Admiral Allen approved BP’s plan for replacing the cap on the Deepwater horizon well, and proceeding wit...