Welcome to the Daily Kos POST-Top Kill/Junk Shot - LMRP Diary #23.
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BP Gulf of Mexico Disaster - Liveblog Mothership - Day Six
Here we can follow BP's latest efforts to continue work on the Top Kill and/or Junk Shot now known as LMRP (Top Kill, Junk Shot are dead).
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My addition to today's ROV is a nibblet of what NOAA says about oil slicks and hurricanes (PDF).
Storms’ surges may carry oil into the coastline and inland as far as the surge reaches. Debris resulting from the hurricane may be contaminated by oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident, but also from other oil releases that may occur during the storm.
A hurricane’s winds rotate counter-clockwise. Thus, in VERY GENERAL TERMS:
o A hurricane passing to the west of the oil slick could drive oil to the coast.
o A hurricane passing to the east of the slick could drive the oil away from the coast.
o However, the details of the evolution of the storm, the track, the wind speed, the size, the forward motion and the intensity are all unknowns at this point and may alter this general statement.
Have we had experience in the past with hurricanes and oil spills?
• Yes, but our experience has been primarily with oil spills that occurred because of the storm, not from an existing oil slick and an ongoing release of oil from the seafloor.
• The experience from hurricanes Katrina and Rita (2005) was that oil released during the storms became very widely dispersed.
• Dozens of significant spills and hundreds of smaller spills occurred from offshore facilities, shoreside facilities, vessel sinkings, etc.
Will there be oil in the rain related to a hurricane?
• No. Hurricanes draw water vapor from a large area, much larger than the area covered by oil, and rain is produced in clouds circulating the hurricane.
I thought I would add to this a screen shot I captured back in 2005 just after Katrina - oil rigs were swept off their moorings and this image shows one that had WASHED UP on the beach (well, where the beach WAS, all thats left is that row of waterlogged houses you see across top part of the photo)
Think about these considerations:
- This hurricane season is looking to be another exceptionally strong one, like in 2005 (in keeping with much of this year's super-charged weather)
- We dont want to see photos of the relief wells washing up on Dauphin Island nor do I want to think about the BP Atlantis Oil Field being ripped out and strung out along the gulf coast.
Later Breaking News:
White House says BP's new operation to start soon
(Reuters) - The amount of oil and gas leaking from BP's ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico could increase as much as 20 percent while efforts are made to cap it, the White House said on Sunday.
The video feeds we are watching:
BP Video Feed
CNN Video Streams - Note: multi-view is sometimes unavailable.
PBS
BP videos - This link takes you to BP's home page, which contains a section called "Latest Video Updates from BP".
WKRG - Mobile/Pensacola - Appears WKRG only has a still shot right now.
ABC 7 Chicago Live Video - Multiple ROV Camera Views (h/t to temptxan for the great find)
Courtesy of whitis here are two additional video links:
Primary feed.
Secondary feed.
From profgoose here is a list of links from The Oil Drum links on Newer Developments, etc.
Again, to keep bandwidth down please do not post images or videos.
Previous children diaries:
Top Kill Liveblog ROV 22 - papicek
Top Kill Liveblog ROV 21 - weatherdude
Top Kill Liveblog ROV 20 - joanneleon
Top Kill Liveblog ROV 19 - nika7k
BP TKJSLMRP LiveBlog - Diary 18 - yawnimawke
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 17 - weatherdude
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 16 - politik
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 15 - RhymesWithUrple
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 14 - johnsonwax
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 13 - Middleagedhousewife
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 12 - nika7k
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 11 - Overseas
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 10 - conchita
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 9 - khowell
BP TKJS LiveBlog - Diary 8 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 7 - miep
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 6 - Alkalinesky
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 5 - Liveblog
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 4 - Garrett
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 3 - sc kitty
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 2 - conchita
Top Kill LiveBlog - Diary 1 - khowell
Top Kill has begun! - Tomtech