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BP capture of escaping oil over 15,600 b/d
(6/9/2010 - OGI: Houston) BP collected 15,600 bbl of oil from the leaking deepwater Macondo well in the US Gulf of Mexico yesterday as the volume of captured oil continues to increase, putting the oil siphoned to the surface over the limit of the Discoverer Enterprise processing capability at 15,000 b/d.
US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander for the Deepwater BP Oil Spill, said today that the well test vessel Toisa Pisces is due to arrive in two or three days that will receive and process an additional 5,000 to 10,000 b/d that will be offloaded to the shuttle tanker Loch Rannoch, due about the same time and both from the North Sea.
Allen said of the new, more permanent containment cap due to be installed this weekend will include a riser pipe that floats below the surface that's anchored to the bottom with a flexible hose that rises to the surface, so there's more maneuvering ability for the oil receiving ships on the surface, which, he said, will be larger and able to withstand heavier weather during the hurricane season. Nevertheless, he said, there will continue to be a leak, albeit smaller. He added that the Command is in the process of moving a mobile drilling unit into place that should be onsite about 14 June, and it will add another 10,000-bbl capacity for collecting what is coming out of the wellhead right now.
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Oil gushing from around LMRP cap. |
"I've never said that this has been going well," Alan said. "We're throwing everything we've got at it. We knew this was catastrophic from the beginning."
As far as the relief wells that are being drilled, Alan said the Development Driller III, which is drilling the first relief well, is now at 8,700 ft below the seabed and that the Development Driller II, which is the second relief well, is now at 3,400 ft below the seabed.
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